Professor Beth Driscoll

Professor in Publishing and Communications and Deputy Dean (Academic), Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne

Beth Driscoll is Professor in Publishing and Communications and Deputy Dean (Academic) in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. As Deputy Dean (Academic), she has responsibility for the strategic direction, oversight and implementation of the Arts Faculty's learning and teaching across undergraduate and graduate programs. In her discipline of publishing studies, her research focuses on contemporary book cultures and practices of reading, and the global publishing industry. Her most recent book is "What Readers Do: Aesthetic and Moral Practices of a Post-Digital Age" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) and her current research includes leading the Community Publishing in Regional Australia project, funded through an ARC Linkage grant.