Dr Millicent Weber

Dr Weber is an ARC DECRA Research Fellow on the project Audiobooks and Digital Book Culture.

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.

Her current major projects investigate audiobooks, and how the ways we write, publish, share and read books are changing; the public value to our communities of local books; and how generative AI draws from and impacts book culture.