Nathan Hollier

Dr Nathan Hollier is Manager of The Australian National University Press, Commissioning Editor with Scribe, and Chair of the Small Press Network. Nathan is past CEO and Publisher of Melbourne University Press, Director of Monash University Publishing, Chair of the OL Society, publishers of Overland, Editor of that journal, and was founding Chair of the Small Press Network. He has a PhD in Australian cultural history and writes on society, culture and economics in Australia and its region. He is the author of many articles and, as editor, two books.

MUP, looking ahead

Book Talk • 01 July 2019

Like many of us, I think of the book as the great vehicle for the sophisticated expression of our humanity. The world needs the book more than ever. To thrive and indeed survive as humans we need to develop our capacity to make rational decisions based on evidence, logic, and an open, imaginative, empathetic engagement with each other, a capacity best facilitated, as we grow, by reading. With Mel ... (read more)

'Alpha and Omega' Nathan Hollier on the establishment of Monash University Publishing

October 2010, no. 325 • 01 October 2010

On 8 September 2010, in the foyer of the Robert Blackwood Hall at Monash University, beneath the beautiful ‘Alpha and Omega’ stained-glass window created by Leonard French and connoting humankind’s endless striving for achievement, Monash University ePress became Monash University Publishing. It was very appropriate that the press should be launched by Barry Jones, author of Sleepers W ... (read more)