Associate Professor Maggie Nolan
Associate Professor
School of Communication and Arts
+61 7 344 36225
Researcher biography
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.
Publications
Book Chapters
Nolan, Maggie (2023). Hoaxes, imposture and the fabrication of literary selves. le vie del falso: storio, letteratura, arte. (pp. 361-376) edited by Andrea Comboni and Sandro La Barbera. Bologna, Italy: il Mulino.
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
Nolan, Maggie (2017). Teaching Kate Grenville's The Secret River in the United States: a study. Teaching Australian and New Zealand literature. (pp. 199-209) New York, NY, United States: Modern Language Association of America.
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.
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.
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.
Nolan, Marguerite (2005). Elizabeth Durack, Eddie Burrup and the art of identification. Fakes and forgeries. (pp. 135-146) Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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.
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
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.
Journal Articles
Nolan, Maggie (2024). Review of Boundary crossers: the hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers. Journal of Australian Studies, 48 (1) ARTN 2275379, 152-154. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2024.2275379
Nolan, Maggie and McDonald, Ronan (2024). Blood and names: Spectres of Irishness in Ruth Park’s The Harp in the South trilogy. Australian Literary Studies, 39 (2), 1-17. doi: 10.20314/als.94ce8babf3
Mrva-Montoya, Agata, Nolan, Maggie and Ward, Rebekah (2024). The impact of journal ranking systems on the discipline of English in Australia. Australian Humanities Review (72) 14408765, 1-22. doi: 10.56449/14408765
Ward, Rebekah, Mrva-Montoya, Agata and Nolan, Maggie (2024). Squeezing in: a case study of Australian academic workloads in the discipline of English. Australian Universities' Review, 65 (1-2), 47-52.
Nolan, Maggie, Mrva-Montoya, Agata and Ward, Rebekah (2023). 'It's best to leave this constructive ambiguity in place!': the evaluation of research in literary studies. Australian Literary Studies, 38 (1). doi: 10.20314/als.8ec9216602
Nolan, Maggie (2022). Cathy Freeman, reconciliation and the burden of history. Continuum, 36 (3), 429-447. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2021.1998371
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
Nolan, Maggie (2021). Conceptualising Irish-Aboriginal writing. Australian Literary Studies, 36 (2), 1-20. doi: 10.20314/als.776fd12cac
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nolan, Maggie and Henaway, Janeese (2017). Decolonizing reading: the Murri book club. Continuum, 31 (6), 791-801. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2017.1372365
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
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
Kimber, Julie and Nolan, Maggie (2016). Introduction. Journal of Australian Studies, 40 (3), 251-252. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2016.1200445
Kimber, Julie and Nolan, Maggie (2016). Introduction. Journal of Australian Studies, 40 (1), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2016.1121797
Nolan, Maggie (2016). Narrating historical massacre: Alex Miller's Landscape of Farewell. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 16 (1).
Nolan, Maggie (2016). Reading Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance: book clubs and postcolonial literary theory. Journal for the Association of the Study of Australian Literature, 16 (2).
Nolan, Maggie and Kimber, Julie (2015). Editorial. Journal of Australian Studies, 39 (4), 441-442. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2015.1079949
Kimber, Julie and Nolan, Maggie (2015). Introduction. Journal of Australian Studies, 39 (3). doi: 10.1080/14443058.2015.1053836
Kimber, Julie and Nolan, Maggie (2015). Editorial. Journal of Australian Studies, 39 (2), 123-124. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2015.1021736
Nolan, Maggie (2015). Shedding clothes: performing cross-cultural exchange through costume and writing in Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance. Southerly, 75 (2), 124-144.
Nolan, Maggie and Clarke, Robert (2014). Reading Groups and Reconciliation: Kate Grenville’s The Secret River and the Ordinary Reader. Australian Literary Studies, 29 (4), 19-35. doi: 10.20314/als.589e1e5b02
Clarke, Robert and Nolan, Marguerite (2014). Book clubs and reconciliation: a pilot study on book clubs reading the ‘Fictions of Reconciliation’. Australian Humanities Review (56).
Carpentier, Sally, Chakraborty, Mridula Nath, Daymond, Margaret, Holden, Philip, McNeill, Dougal, Nolan, Marguerite, Raja, Ira, Rampaul, Giselle, Sharrad, Paul, Silva, Tony Simoes Da, Skeete, Geraldine and Whitehouse, Ian (2014). XVII New literatures. Year's Work in English Studies, 93 (1), 1046-1212. doi: 10.1093/ywes/mau015
Nolan, Maggie and Kimber, Julie (2014). Introduction. Journal of Australian Studies, 38 (1), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2013.870951
Kimber, Julie and Nolan, Maggie (2014). Introduction. Journal of Australian Studies, 38 (2), 137-138. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2014.897213
Nolan, Maggie and Kimber, Julie (2014). Introduction. Journal of Australian Studies, 38 (3). doi: 10.1080/14443058.2014.926589
Abodunrin, Femi, Carpentier, Sally, Chakraborty, Mridula Nath, Daymond, Margaret, Nolan, Marguerite, Raja, Ira, Rampaul, Giselle, Sharrad, Paul, Skeete, Geraldine, Stafford, Jane, Whitehouse, Ian and Williams, Mark (2013). New literatures. Year's Work in English Studies, 92 (1), 861-989. doi: 10.1093/ywes/mat013
Nolan, Maggie (2012). Review of The Sons of Clovis: Ern Malley, Adoré Floupette and a Secret History of Australian Poetry, by David Brooks. Australian Literary Studies, 27 (2), 106-108. doi: 10.20314/als.aa9ba670bc
Nolan, Maggie (2012). Review of A Different Inequality: The Politics of Debate about Remote Aboriginal Australia by Diana Austin-Broos. Transnational Literature, 4 (2).
Nolan, Marguerite and Clarke, Robert (2011). Reading The Secret River. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, 17 (2), 9-25.
Nolan, Maggie (2011). Reconciling with oneself: Gordon Matthews' An Australian Son. Southerly, 71 (1), 89-104.
Nolan, Marguerite (2009). Displacing difference: the secret ofThe Secret Life of Us. Journal of Australian Studies, 33 (2), 139-151. doi: 10.1080/14443050902883363
Nolan, Marguerite (2009). Mistaking Multiculturalism: Culotta, Demidenko and Khouri. New Literatures Review (45/46), 95-112.
Collis, Christy and Nolan, Maggie (2005). Sites of benevolence. Journal of Australian Studies, 29 (85), 5-10. doi: 10.1080/14443050509388011
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
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
Nolan, Maggie (2004). In his own sweet time: Carmen’s coming out. Australian Literary Studies, 21 (4), 134-148. doi: 10.20314/als.e93592c7ad
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
Nolan, Marguerite (1998). Mistaken Identities: narrating literary hoaxes. Australian Studies, 13 (1), 142-157.
Conference Papers
Nolan, Maggie and Franks, Travis (2024). AustLit and Australian literary studies in the US. 2024 AAALS Conference, Online, 17 - 19 April 2024.
McDonald, Ronan and Nolan, Maggie (2024). 'The hills are full of Irish People': Settler Colonial Celticism in The Harp in the South. 'A Window of Life': The Writing of Ruth Park ASAL Mini-Conference 2024, Canberra, ACT, United States, 14-16 February 2024.
Nolan, Maggie (2024). Special Lecture II. History, Culture and Democracy: Changing Voices in Australia and India, Kolkata, India, 1-2 February 2024.
Nolan, Maggie (2023). The shadow of Irishness in Gail Jones' Our Shadows. ISAANZ 26: Disruptions and Transitions, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 12-14 December 2023.
Dickinson, Jessica and Nolan, Maggie (2023). Finding Irishness in the archives. ISAANZ 26: Disruptions and Transitions, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 12-14 December 2023.
Bode, Katherine, Cuthbertson, Galen, McDonald, Ronan, Morgan, Finn, Nolan, Maggie and O'Connell, Sean (2023). (Bush)ranging through the (Digital) Archives. Recentring the Regions, ASAL 2023, RMIT Melbourne, 4-7 July 2023.
Audio Document
ABC Radio National and Nolan, Maggie (2024). Ern Malley, the greatest Australian poet who never lived. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Late Night Live.
Research Report
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.
Newspaper Articles
Nolan, Maggie (2024, 08 15). The greatest poet who never lived – Ern Malley at 80 The Conversation
Nolan, Maggie (2024, 05 01). Information and transformation: the continuing expansion of AustLit Australian Book Review 33-34.
Nolan, Maggie (2024, 03 01). Fiction's Otherness: Conjuring Joseph Conrad Australian Book Review 38-38.
Nolan, Maggie (2022, 07 12). A dystopian or utopian future? Claire G. Coleman’s new novel Enclave imagines both The Conversation
Nolan, Maggie (2020, 05 16). Stories that enrich the imagination The Weekend Australian 41-41.
Nolan, Maggie (2020, 01 20). The ethics of reading and the experience of book clubs ABC Religion and Ethics
Nolan, Maggie (2018, 07 09). The Murri Book Club and the politics of reading for Indigenous Australian The Conversation
Nolan, Maggie (2017, 05 14). Diverse voices: an unfolding narrative The Weekend Australian: The Deal, Issue 93 42-42.
Creative Works
Henrickson, Leah, Tang, David, Nolan, Maggie and Mills, Catriona (2024). Australian AI in the Archive. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: AustLit.
Doig, Tom, Millar, Andrew, Mills, Catriona and Nolan, Maggie (2024). Preppers and survivalism in the AustLit Database. St Lucia, QLD Australia: AustLit.