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Dr Millicent Weber

ARC DECRA Fellow, Senior Lecturer in English

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8063-5676
20152026

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Biography

Millicent is an ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer in English in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. She researches how people engage with books and literary culture: everything from prizes and book reviews, to audience experience at literary festivals, to social media trolling of authors, to amateur production of audiobooks, podcasts, and fan-fiction. She has a particular interest in the role technology plays in how books are written, published and read. She has also worked as an archivist at the University of Melbourne Archives and the National Library of Australia. Her first book, Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.

Qualifications

BA (Hons); PhD

Research Interests

  • Audiobooks
  • Live and digital literary culture
  • Readerships and reading practices
  • Contemporary publishing
  • Cultural policy and creative industries discourse
  • Book and library history

Education/Academic qualification

Literary and cultural studies, PhD, Audience in the spotlight: Investigating literary festival engagement, Monash University

Award Date: 15 Dec 2016

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  • Registered to supervise

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