Maggie Nolan (also cited as Marguerite Nolan) has been an academic with the Australian Catholic University's School of Arts under its Faculty of Education and the Arts. She has worked in the areas of Australian literary studies; Australian cultural history; representations of race and ethnicity in Australian cultural history; Indigenous Australian literature; cultures of reading; reception; literary hoaxes and imposture; and Irish-Australian literature.
She holds a PhD from the University of Stirling in Scotland.
In July 2023, she took up the Directorship of AustLit, based at the St Lucia campus of The University of Queensland.