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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2009
Journal Article
Displacing difference: the secret ofThe Secret Life of Us
Nolan, Marguerite (2009). Displacing difference: the secret ofThe Secret Life of Us. Journal of Australian Studies, 33 (2), 139-151. doi: 10.1080/14443050902883363
2009
Book Chapter
Who's a weird mob? Imagining assimilation in postwar Australia
Nolan, Marguerite (2009). Who's a weird mob? Imagining assimilation in postwar Australia. Imagined Australia: reflections around the reciprocal construction of identity between Australia and Europe. (pp. 265-276) edited by Renata Summo-O'Connell. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.
2009
Book Chapter
Canvassing the issues: Indigenous Australians in higher education
Nolan, Maggie (2009). Canvassing the issues: Indigenous Australians in higher education. Indigenous issues in Australian universities: research, teaching, support. (pp. 1-6) edited by Jack Frawley, Maggie Nolan and Nereda White. Darwin, NT, Australia: Charles Darwin University Press.
2009
Journal Article
Mistaking Multiculturalism: Culotta, Demidenko and Khouri
Nolan, Marguerite (2009). Mistaking Multiculturalism: Culotta, Demidenko and Khouri. New Literatures Review (45/46), 95-112.
2007
Book Chapter
'Bitin' Back': Indigenous writing in Queensland
Nolan, Maggie (2007). 'Bitin' Back': Indigenous writing in Queensland. By the book: a literary history of Queensland. (pp. 259-277) edited by Patrick Buckridge and Belinda McKay. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: UQP.
2005
Journal Article
Sites of benevolence
Collis, Christy and Nolan, Maggie (2005). Sites of benevolence. Journal of Australian Studies, 29 (85), 5-10. doi: 10.1080/14443050509388011
2005
Book Chapter
Elizabeth Durack, Eddie Burrup and the art of identification
Nolan, Marguerite (2005). Elizabeth Durack, Eddie Burrup and the art of identification. Fakes and forgeries. (pp. 135-146) Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2005
Journal Article
‘It's all Migloo crap to me’: identity politics in contemporary Indigenous writing in Queensland
Nolan, Maggie (2005). ‘It's all Migloo crap to me’: identity politics in contemporary Indigenous writing in Queensland. Queensland Review, 12 (1), 37-46. doi: 10.1017/s1321816600003895
2004
Journal Article
Exorcizing history: Radiance and the abject Aboriginal mother
Nolan, Marguerite (2004). Exorcizing history: Radiance and the abject Aboriginal mother. New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, 2 (3), 175-187. doi: 10.1386/ncin.2.3.175/1
2004
Journal Article
In his own sweet time: Carmen’s coming out
Nolan, Maggie (2004). In his own sweet time: Carmen’s coming out. Australian Literary Studies, 21 (4), 134-148. doi: 10.20314/als.e93592c7ad
2004
Journal Article
Who’s who?: Mapping hoaxes and impostures in Australian literary history
Dawson, Carrie and Nolan, Maggie (2004). Who’s who?: Mapping hoaxes and impostures in Australian literary history. Australian Literary Studies, 21 (4), v-xx. doi: 10.20314/als.605d5e6698
2003
Book Chapter
Identity crises and orphaned rewritings
Nolan, Maggie (2003). Identity crises and orphaned rewritings. Mongrel signatures: reflections on the work of Mudrooroo. (pp. 107-128) Amsterdam, Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004486522_008
2003
Book Chapter
Displacing Indigenous Australians: Freud's Totem and Taboo
Maggie Nolan (2003). Displacing Indigenous Australians: Freud's Totem and Taboo. History on the couch: essays in history and psychoanalysis. (pp. 60-72) edited by Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds. Carlton, VIC, Australia: Melbourne University Press.
1999
Other Outputs
Multi-partner campuses: the future of Australian higher education
Adam Shoemaker, Janelle Allison, Kingsley Gum, Rose Harmoni, Mike Lindfield, Marguerite Nolan and Lawrence Stedman (1999). Multi-partner campuses: the future of Australian higher education. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs.
1998
Book Chapter
Authenticity and betrayal: the subjection of Mudrooroo
Nolan, Marguerite (1998). Authenticity and betrayal: the subjection of Mudrooroo. Appreciating difference: writing postcolonial literary history. (pp. 201-210) Geelong, VIC, Australia: Deakin University Press.
1998
Journal Article
Mistaken Identities: narrating literary hoaxes
Nolan, Marguerite (1998). Mistaken Identities: narrating literary hoaxes. Australian Studies, 13 (1), 142-157.
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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Doctor Philosophy
_A Black Hole_: Carceral Logic and Imaginaries of Containment in Fantastic Literature
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Anna Johnston
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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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