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John Arnold is an Adjunct Associate Professor and Monash University Affiliate in the School of Languages, Literature, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. He began his association with the university as an arts undergraduate in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Following roles as a research assistant, bookseller, and librarian, he joined the National Centre for Australian Studies (NCAS) upon its foundation in 1989. Arnold served as Director of NCAS and was Head of the School of Political and Social Inquiry from September 2001 to February 2004. He taught in the Graduate Publishing and Graduate Communications Programs offered by NCAS. Although he retired as Associate Professor at the end of 2012, he continues to teach units including Com 4001/5001: Researching and Writing Australia and Com 4008: Media Ethics and Practice, and supervises students in the Com 5004: Industry Research Project. He is also an experienced supervisor of Masters and Doctoral theses. In the first semester of 2008, he shared the Monash Visiting Lecturer in Australian Studies position at the University of Copenhagen with Dr Jeff Jarvis.

Arnold's research specializations include studies of Australian literary and narrative cultures, digital humanities practice in Australian literary studies, infrastructure for Australian literary studies, publishing studies, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies, as well as eResearch infrastructure for humanities scholars in literary and narrative studies, children's and popular fictions, and film/TV studies. He has published widely in Australian studies and the history of the book. Key publications encompass his role as co-editor of the Bibliography of Australian Literature (2001–2008) with John Hay, across four volumes covering authors A-E, F-J, K-O, P-Z. He also co-edited the Bibliography of Australian Literature Supplement with Terence O’Neill. Recent works include the edited book How May I Endure: Selected Poems of Elza De Locre (2019), “Addenda to ‘Worthwhile Rarities? The Fiction of Eric Partridge’” (2021, Script & Print), “A harbinger for Eric Partridge: the Scholartis Press edition of Francis Grose’s A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue” (2021, Script & Print), and “John G. Brandon and ‘Coutts Brisbane’: Two Australian contributors to Sexton Blake and inter-war popular fiction” (2017, Australasian Journal of Popular Culture).