Dr Millicent Weber
BA (Hons); PhD
Lecturer in English
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Research interests
- Live and digital literary culture
- Readerships and reading practices
- Contemporary publishing
- Cultural policy and creative industries discourse
- Book and library history
Biography
Millicent is a 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, or fan-fiction. 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.
Publications
- Dane, A & Weber, M, eds, 2021, Post-Digital Book Cultures: Australian Perspectives, Monash University Publishing, Clayton, Australia.
- Weber, M 2021, '"Reading" the Public Domain: Narrating and Listening to Librivox Audiobooks', Book History, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 209-243.
- Dane, A & Weber, M 2021, 'Post-Digital Book Cultures: An Introduction', in Alexandra Dane and Millicent Weber (ed.), Post-Digital Book Cultures: Australian Perspectives, Monash University Publishing, Clayton, Australia, pp. 1-8.
- Weber, M 2021, 'Online Reading During the COVID-19 Pandemic', in Alexandra Dane and Millicent Weber (ed.), Post-Digital Book Cultures: Australian Perspectives, Monash University Publishing, Clayton, Australia, pp. 11-56.
- Weber, M, Giblin, R, Ding, Y et al. 2021, 'Exploring the circulation of digital audiobooks: Australian library lending 2006-2017', Information Research: an International Electronic Journal, vol. 26, no. 2.
- Weber, M 2020, DarntonWatch Podcast Series, https://anchor.fm/darntonwatch
- Weber, M 2020, 'Public-Facing Literature: Festivals, Prizes, and Social Media', in Richard Bradford (ed.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., USA, pp. 807-820.
- Parnell, C, Dane, A & Weber, M 2020, 'Author Care and the Invisibility of Affective Labour: Publicists' Role in Book Publishing', Publishing Research Quarterly.
- Weber, M & Dane, A 2020, 'The Conventions and Regulation of Book Culture', Australian Humanities Review vol. 66, pp. 1-9.
- Weber, M & Dane, A, eds, 2020, Special Section: The Conventions and Regulation of Book Culture. Australian Humanities Review vol. 66.
- Weber, M & Davis, M 2020, 'Feminism in the troll space: Clementine Ford's Fight Like a Girl, social media, and the networked book', Feminist Media Studies, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 944-965.
- Carter, D & Weber, M 2019, 'Fiction Publishing in Australia, 2013–2017', in Dallas John Baker, Donna Lee Brien and Jen Webb (ed.), Publishing and Culture, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 341-358.
- Weber, M & Driscoll, B 2019, 'Playful Twitter accounts and the socialisation of literary institutions', First Monday, vol. 24, no. 3-4, pp. online.
- Weber, M & Buchanan, R 2019, 'Metadata as a machine for feeling in Germaine Greer's archive', Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 230-241.
- Weber, M & Mannion, A, eds, 2019, Book Publishing in Australia: A Living Legacy, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne.
- Weber, M 2019, 'Scholarly Feminist Presses: Germaine Greer and Stump Cross Books', in Millicent Weber & Aaron Mannion (ed.), Book Publishing in Australia: A Living Legacy, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 116-141.
- Weber, M & Mannion, A 2019, 'Publishing Legacies: An Introduction', in Millicent Weber & Aaron Mannion (ed.), Book Publishing in Australia: A Living Legacy, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 7-12.
- Weber, M 2019, 'On audiobooks and literature in the post-digital age', Overland, pp. online.
- Weber, M 2018, Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom.
- Murray, S & Weber, M 2017, ''Live and local'?: The significance of digital media for writers' festivals', Convergence: the international journal of research into new media technologies, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 61-78.
- Mannion, A, Weber, M & Day, K, eds, 2017, Publishing Means Business: Australian Perspectives, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, Australia.
- Weber, M & Mannion, A 2017, 'Discipline and Publish', in Aaron Mannion, Millicent Weber and Katherine Day (ed.), Publishing Means Business: Australian Perspectives, Monash University Publishing, Australia, pp. 186-210.
- Weber, M 2017, 'At the intersection of writers festivals and literary communities', Overland, online.
- Weber, M 2016, 'Retaining Traces of Composition in Digital Manuscript Collections: A Case for Institutional Proactivity', Refactory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, vol. 27, pp. online.
- Weber, M 2015, 'Conceptualizing audience experience at the literary festival', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 84-96.
