Maggie Nolan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5406807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maggie Nolan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maggie |
| FAMILY NAME | Nolan |
| SIGNATURE | NOLAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Catholic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9398-4517 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Impact of Journal Rankings on the Discipline of English in Australia
UNUSUALLY DIVERSE IN both its object of study, and its approaches and methodologies.It has multiple subfields and frequently aligns with other disciplines including creative writing, cultural studies, and theatre/screen studies.As Ronan McDonald explains: Journal Rankings in the Australian ContextAustralia was relatively slow to adopt journal rankings, but in 2007 the Australian Research Council (ARC) formed the Excellence in Research for Austral…
Blood and Names
It’s Best to Leave This Constructive Ambiguity in Place!’
Despite recognition that the use of journal rankings in research assessment is problematic, they are implicitly or explicitly used by institutions to evaluate individual researchers. This essay reports on a study we undertook on behalf of the Australian University Heads of English (AUHE) investigating research assessment policies within the field of English, and their impact on academics' publishing strategies and careers. After an initial online…
Cathy Freeman, reconciliation and the burden of history
On 25 September 2020, the ABC released a documentary film to mark the twentieth anniversary of Cathy Freeman’s gold medal victory in the women’s 400 metres at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Media interest in Freeman’s victory still erupts periodically, most recently, to commemorate the twentieth anniversary. This article revisits Cathy Freeman’s historic gold-medal-winning performance in order to ponder the lost promise of reconciliation. At the time,…
Conceptualising Irish-Aboriginal Writing
This article considers some of the reasons why Irish-Australian literature has not been a significant trajectory within Australian literary studies and what it might offer if it were. Since the colonial era, Irish difference has been both recalcitrant and assimilable but, in the wake of Federation in 1901, Australian literature was concerned with the production of a national tradition and Irishness served to differentiate Australianness from Brit…
Introduction
In a famous â perhaps too famous â proclamation, the late historian Patrick Oâ Farrell (1933â 2003) declared that the â distinctive Australian identity was not born in the bush, nor at Anzac Cove: these were merely situations for its expression. No; it was born in Irishness protesting against the extremes of Englishnessâ (Oâ Farrell 12). There has been a tradition of thinking about the Irish in Australia as the grit in the oyster, a recalcitrant …
Legacies in Anxious Times
Agency, Change and the Social Imaginary
Shifting Timescapes and the Significance of the Mine in Alexis Wright’s *Carpentaria
This article proposes a reading of Alexis Wright's epic novel Carpentaria that focuses on the mine and its impacts as central to any understanding of the novel. Carpentaria offers a stark portrayal of how resource extraction is intimately linked with both colonisation and capitalism and is sustained through state-sanctioned violence and nationalist ideologies. This article explores the dichotomy between Normal Phantom, who views mining as just an…
Unorthodoxies
Not peer-reviewed
Forgotten Moments and Reclaimed Memories
History, Myth and Memory
Historical Blind Spots
Mythologies of Nation-Building in Australia Today
Peer-reviewed
Re-presenting the Past
Pushing the Boundaries in Australian Studies
Voices from the Community
Decolonizing reading
This article explores the cultural work of the Townsville-based Murri (Indigenous) Book Club. Although a growing body of research relates to book clubs in Britain and the US, little work has been done in the Australian context on what Marilyn Poole has called, ‘one of the largest bodies of community participation in the arts in Australia’ (280). The work that has been done, moreover, suggests that book clubs are an overwhelmingly white phenomenon…
Reading Groups and Reconciliation
Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River was met with considerable acclaim on its publication in 2005. It has also been the subject of intense scrutiny and controversy, becoming a focus of criticism by both historians and literary scholars. This essay avoids adopting a position in relation to these debates, an undertaking we have attempted elsewhere (see Nolan and Clarke). Rather, we elaborate on the findings of a reception study of book clubs tha…
Displacing difference
This article analyses the television drama, The Secret Life of Us. It asserts that, although the show was celebrated for its liberal discussion and representation of difference, it simultaneously elides contemporary issues of Indigeneity and identity in Australian cultural politics. First, the article examines the reception of the series in order to establish it as a significant contemporary social document and situate it within discourses of nat…
Sites of benevolence
On the television show Backyard Blitz, Australians judged as deserving by their families and friends receive the gift of surprise makeovers to their gardens; in Australian public hospitals, trainee surgeons hone their skills on willing patients; in literary travel narratives, non-Indigenous Australian writers attempt to forge a relationship with the land and its traditional owners; and in inner-city Brisbane, the City Council builds lockers and s…
Who’s Who
Discusses 'the long Australian tradition of literary hoaxes and imposture', and introduces this special issue of ALS on literary hoaxes and impostures. "This volume does not attempt to provide comprehensive coverage of these many cases: rather, the essays are meant to introduce readers to particular controversies and either to provide an original contribution to specific debates or to use a particular instance to explore larger theoretical issues…
In His Own Sweet Time
Discusses Wandra Koolmatrie's autobiography, My Own Sweet Time (1994), later revealed as a fiction written by Leon Carmen. 'In this paper, I want to map the range of responses to Carmen's hoax to get a sense of the cultural anxieties that such events generate, and the complexity of the issues at stake. I will then mobilise queer theory to think through the identificatory processes and effects that were circulating around this hoax
Decolonizing reading
This article explores the cultural work of the Townsville-based Murri (Indigenous) Book Club. Although a growing body of research relates to book clubs in Britain and the US, little work has been done in the Australian context on what Marilyn Poole has called, ‘one of the largest bodies of community participation in the arts in Australia’ (280). The work that has been done, moreover, suggests that book clubs are an overwhelmingly white phenomenon…
It’s Best to Leave This Constructive Ambiguity in Place!’
Despite recognition that the use of journal rankings in research assessment is problematic, they are implicitly or explicitly used by institutions to evaluate individual researchers. This essay reports on a study we undertook on behalf of the Australian University Heads of English (AUHE) investigating research assessment policies within the field of English, and their impact on academics' publishing strategies and careers. After an initial online…
Conceptualising Irish-Aboriginal Writing
This article considers some of the reasons why Irish-Australian literature has not been a significant trajectory within Australian literary studies and what it might offer if it were. Since the colonial era, Irish difference has been both recalcitrant and assimilable but, in the wake of Federation in 1901, Australian literature was concerned with the production of a national tradition and Irishness served to differentiate Australianness from Brit…
Displacing difference
This article analyses the television drama, The Secret Life of Us. It asserts that, although the show was celebrated for its liberal discussion and representation of difference, it simultaneously elides contemporary issues of Indigeneity and identity in Australian cultural politics. First, the article examines the reception of the series in order to establish it as a significant contemporary social document and situate it within discourses of nat…
Who’s Who
Discusses 'the long Australian tradition of literary hoaxes and imposture', and introduces this special issue of ALS on literary hoaxes and impostures. "This volume does not attempt to provide comprehensive coverage of these many cases: rather, the essays are meant to introduce readers to particular controversies and either to provide an original contribution to specific debates or to use a particular instance to explore larger theoretical issues…
Who’s Who
Discusses 'the long Australian tradition of literary hoaxes and imposture', and introduces this special issue of ALS on literary hoaxes and impostures. "This volume does not attempt to provide comprehensive coverage of these many cases: rather, the essays are meant to introduce readers to particular controversies and either to provide an original contribution to specific debates or to use a particular instance to explore larger theoretical issues…
In His Own Sweet Time
Discusses Wandra Koolmatrie's autobiography, My Own Sweet Time (1994), later revealed as a fiction written by Leon Carmen. 'In this paper, I want to map the range of responses to Carmen's hoax to get a sense of the cultural anxieties that such events generate, and the complexity of the issues at stake. I will then mobilise queer theory to think through the identificatory processes and effects that were circulating around this hoax
Sites of benevolence
On the television show Backyard Blitz, Australians judged as deserving by their families and friends receive the gift of surprise makeovers to their gardens; in Australian public hospitals, trainee surgeons hone their skills on willing patients; in literary travel narratives, non-Indigenous Australian writers attempt to forge a relationship with the land and its traditional owners; and in inner-city Brisbane, the City Council builds lockers and s…
Displacing difference
This article analyses the television drama, The Secret Life of Us. It asserts that, although the show was celebrated for its liberal discussion and representation of difference, it simultaneously elides contemporary issues of Indigeneity and identity in Australian cultural politics. First, the article examines the reception of the series in order to establish it as a significant contemporary social document and situate it within discourses of nat…
Reading Groups and Reconciliation
Kate Grenville's novel The Secret River was met with considerable acclaim on its publication in 2005. It has also been the subject of intense scrutiny and controversy, becoming a focus of criticism by both historians and literary scholars. This essay avoids adopting a position in relation to these debates, an undertaking we have attempted elsewhere (see Nolan and Clarke). Rather, we elaborate on the findings of a reception study of book clubs tha…
Re-presenting the Past
Pushing the Boundaries in Australian Studies
Voices from the Community
Decolonizing reading
This article explores the cultural work of the Townsville-based Murri (Indigenous) Book Club. Although a growing body of research relates to book clubs in Britain and the US, little work has been done in the Australian context on what Marilyn Poole has called, ‘one of the largest bodies of community participation in the arts in Australia’ (280). The work that has been done, moreover, suggests that book clubs are an overwhelmingly white phenomenon…
History, Myth and Memory
Historical Blind Spots
Mythologies of Nation-Building in Australia Today
Peer-reviewed
Unorthodoxies
Not peer-reviewed
Forgotten Moments and Reclaimed Memories
Legacies in Anxious Times
Agency, Change and the Social Imaginary
Shifting Timescapes and the Significance of the Mine in Alexis Wright’s *Carpentaria
This article proposes a reading of Alexis Wright's epic novel Carpentaria that focuses on the mine and its impacts as central to any understanding of the novel. Carpentaria offers a stark portrayal of how resource extraction is intimately linked with both colonisation and capitalism and is sustained through state-sanctioned violence and nationalist ideologies. This article explores the dichotomy between Normal Phantom, who views mining as just an…
Cathy Freeman, reconciliation and the burden of history
On 25 September 2020, the ABC released a documentary film to mark the twentieth anniversary of Cathy Freeman’s gold medal victory in the women’s 400 metres at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Media interest in Freeman’s victory still erupts periodically, most recently, to commemorate the twentieth anniversary. This article revisits Cathy Freeman’s historic gold-medal-winning performance in order to ponder the lost promise of reconciliation. At the time,…
Conceptualising Irish-Aboriginal Writing
This article considers some of the reasons why Irish-Australian literature has not been a significant trajectory within Australian literary studies and what it might offer if it were. Since the colonial era, Irish difference has been both recalcitrant and assimilable but, in the wake of Federation in 1901, Australian literature was concerned with the production of a national tradition and Irishness served to differentiate Australianness from Brit…
Introduction
In a famous â perhaps too famous â proclamation, the late historian Patrick Oâ Farrell (1933â 2003) declared that the â distinctive Australian identity was not born in the bush, nor at Anzac Cove: these were merely situations for its expression. No; it was born in Irishness protesting against the extremes of Englishnessâ (Oâ Farrell 12). There has been a tradition of thinking about the Irish in Australia as the grit in the oyster, a recalcitrant …
It’s Best to Leave This Constructive Ambiguity in Place!’
Despite recognition that the use of journal rankings in research assessment is problematic, they are implicitly or explicitly used by institutions to evaluate individual researchers. This essay reports on a study we undertook on behalf of the Australian University Heads of English (AUHE) investigating research assessment policies within the field of English, and their impact on academics' publishing strategies and careers. After an initial online…
The Impact of Journal Rankings on the Discipline of English in Australia
UNUSUALLY DIVERSE IN both its object of study, and its approaches and methodologies.It has multiple subfields and frequently aligns with other disciplines including creative writing, cultural studies, and theatre/screen studies.As Ronan McDonald explains: Journal Rankings in the Australian ContextAustralia was relatively slow to adopt journal rankings, but in 2007 the Australian Research Council (ARC) formed the Excellence in Research for Austral…
Blood and Names
Sociology (18 works) · History (15 works) · History (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Art (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Media studies (10 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)