Beth Driscoll is Associate Professor in Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on contemporary book cultures across two main domains: socio-cultural practices of reading, and the global publishing industry. Her books include “The New Literary Middlebrow: Tastemakers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century” , “The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business” and "The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition", co-authored with Claire Squires, and “Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction in the Twenty-First Century”, co-authored with Kim Wilkins and Lisa Fletcher.