Overview
Background
Maggie Nolan is an Associate Professor in Digital Cultural Heritage in the School of Communication and Arts and the recently appointed Director of AustLit. AustLit is a comprehensive information resource and research environment for Australian literary, print, and narrative culture and it supports and promotes research into Australian story-telling.
Maggie values interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to humanities research.
Maggie's research is in the broad field of Australian Literary Cultures. Her most recent project, "Close Relations: Irishness in Australian Literature", with Professor Ronan McDonald (UoM) and Professor Kath Bode (ANU) was awarded an ARC Discovery Grant in 2022.
Her research interests include:
- Contemporary Indigenous Literatures
- Hoaxes, Imposture and Mistaken Identity in Australian Literary Culture
- Reading, reception and the civic role of book clubs
- Digital literary studies
- Value in literary studies and the impact of ranking systems on the discipline.
Maggie is an experienced postgraduate supervisor and is available to supervise topics on Australian literary cultures. She also welcomes students and researcher who would like to work on projects linked to AustLit.
Availability
- Associate Professor Maggie Nolan is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of English Literature, University of Tasmania
- Masters (Research) of English Literature, The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy of English Literature, University of Stirling
Research impacts
Maggie is regularly invited to engage with the media on a range of topics, most recently in series on "Fakes and Frauds" as part of the ABC Radio National's the Book Show.
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-book-show/helen-dale-darville-demidenko-fakes-and-frauds-shirley-le/102265748 (Monday, 15 May, 2023)
She also writes regularly for The Conversation and some of her articles include.
"The Murri Book Club and the politics of reading for Indigenous Australians."
"A Dystopian or Utopian Future: Claire G. Coleman's new novel, Enclave, imagines both."
Works
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2021
Journal Article
Conceptualising Irish-Aboriginal writing
Nolan, Maggie (2021). Conceptualising Irish-Aboriginal writing. Australian Literary Studies, 36 (2), 1-20. doi: 10.20314/als.776fd12cac
2021
Journal Article
Introduction: The uses of Irish-Australian literature
McDonald, Ronan and Nolan, Maggie (2021). Introduction: The uses of Irish-Australian literature. Australian Literary Studies, 36 (2), 1-13. doi: 10.20314/als.3eb21c884e
2021
Book Chapter
Reading fiction, talking reconciliation: Australian book clubs, book talk and the politics of history
Nolan, Maggie, Clarke, Robert and Brown, Rebekah (2021). Reading fiction, talking reconciliation: Australian book clubs, book talk and the politics of history. Über Bücher reden: Literaturrezeption in Lesegemeinschaften. (pp. 231-242) Goettingen, Germany: V & R Unipress GmbH. doi: 10.14220/9783737013239.231
2020
Journal Article
Shifting Timescapes and the Significance of the Mine in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
Nolan, Maggie (2020). Shifting Timescapes and the Significance of the Mine in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria. Australian Literary Studies, 35 (2), 1-21. doi: 10.20314/als.5910cfb010
2020
Journal Article
Legacies in anxious times: race, protest, justice
Holbrook, Carolyn, Keating, James, Kimber, Julie, Magner, Brigid, Nolan, Maggie, Potter, Emily and Rogers, Thomas (2020). Legacies in anxious times: race, protest, justice. Journal of Australian Studies, 44 (3), 251-253. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2020.1799522
2020
Other Outputs
Stories that enrich the imagination
Nolan, Maggie (2020, 05 16). Stories that enrich the imagination The Weekend Australian 41-41.
2020
Journal Article
Reading massacre: Book club responses to Landscape of Farewell
Nolan, Maggie (2020). Reading massacre: Book club responses to Landscape of Farewell. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 62 (1), 73-96. doi: 10.7560/TSLL62104
2020
Other Outputs
The ethics of reading and the experience of book clubs
Nolan, Maggie (2020, 01 20). The ethics of reading and the experience of book clubs ABC Religion and Ethics
2020
Journal Article
Agency, Change and the Social Imaginary
Holbrook, Carolyn, Keating, James, Kimber, Julie, Nolan, Maggie and Rogers, Tom (2020). Agency, Change and the Social Imaginary. Journal of Australian Studies, 44 (1), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2020.1728917
2019
Journal Article
Unorthodoxies: rethinking race and gender
Kimber, Julie, Nolan, Maggie, Holbrook, Carolyn and Rademaker, Laura (2019). Unorthodoxies: rethinking race and gender. Journal of Australian Studies, 43 (3), 265-267. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2019.1650875
2019
Journal Article
Forgotten Moments and Reclaimed Memories
Holbrook, Carolyn, Kimber, Julie, Nolan, Maggie and Rogers, Thomas (2019). Forgotten Moments and Reclaimed Memories. Journal of Australian Studies, 43 (2), 141-142. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2019.1614252
2018
Journal Article
Historical blind spots
Nolan, Maggie, Keating, James, Kimber, Julie and Smith, Ellen (2018). Historical blind spots. Journal of Australian Studies, 42 (4), 406-408. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2018.1550031
2018
Other Outputs
The Murri Book Club and the politics of reading for Indigenous Australian
Nolan, Maggie (2018, 07 09). The Murri Book Club and the politics of reading for Indigenous Australian The Conversation
2018
Journal Article
History, myth and memory: Temporalities past and present
Holbrook, Carolyn, Kimber, Julie, Nolan, Maggie and Smith, Ellen (2018). History, myth and memory: Temporalities past and present. Journal of Australian Studies, 42 (3), 265-267. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2018.1503628
2018
Journal Article
Mythologies of Nation-Building in Australia Today
Holbrook, Carolyn, Kimber, Julie, Nolan, Maggie and Rademaker, Laura (2018). Mythologies of Nation-Building in Australia Today. Journal of Australian Studies, 42 (1), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2018.1435971
2017
Journal Article
Re-presenting the Past
Kimber, Julie, Nolan, Maggie, Rogers, Thomas and Smith, Ellen (2017). Re-presenting the Past. Journal of Australian Studies, 41 (4), 401-403. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2017.1390055
2017
Journal Article
Decolonizing reading: the Murri book club
Nolan, Maggie and Henaway, Janeese (2017). Decolonizing reading: the Murri book club. Continuum, 31 (6), 791-801. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2017.1372365
2017
Other Outputs
Diverse voices: an unfolding narrative
Nolan, Maggie (2017, 05 14). Diverse voices: an unfolding narrative The Weekend Australian: The Deal, Issue 93 42-42.
2017
Journal Article
Voices from the Community: Reimagining the Past
Keating, James, Kimber, Julie, Nolan, Maggie and Rademaker, Laura (2017). Voices from the Community: Reimagining the Past. Journal of Australian Studies, 41 (2), 139-140. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2017.1322495
2017
Journal Article
Pushing the boundaries in Australian studies
Nolan, Maggie and Kimber, Julie (2017). Pushing the boundaries in Australian studies. Journal of Australian Studies, 41 (1), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2017.1287544
Supervision
Availability
- Associate Professor Maggie Nolan is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Master Philosophy
The Role of the Editor in Australian Young Adult Fiction
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Amber Gwynne
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Master Philosophy
Through a Glass, Darkly: A Novella and Accompany Exegesis
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Fiona Foley, Associate Professor Helen Marshall
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Doctor Philosophy
_A Black Hole_: Carceral Logic and Imaginaries of Containment in Fantastic Literature
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Anna Johnston
Media
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