Ronnie Scott

Dr Ronnie Scott

Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing

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Contact details

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Email: ronnie.scott@rmit.edu.au


Campus: Melbourne City


Programs

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Contact details

DSC | School of Media and Communication


non/fictionLab


Email: ronnie.scott@rmit.edu.au


Campus: Melbourne City


Programs

Ronnie lectures in the Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) on fiction and nonfiction, comics and graphic storytelling, and how creative research methods can be applied to social change.

Overview

Dr Scott is the editor of two anthologies, the author of a Penguin Special and of two books of nonfiction for the National Gallery of Victoria. He's a chief investigator on Folio, a project collecting oral histories about Australian comics funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Projects scheme. His 2020 novel The Adversary was shortlisted for a Queensland Literary Award and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and in 2023 he published the novel Shirley.

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Industry experience

Dr Scott has recently written essays, fiction and criticism for The Age/Sydney Morning Herald's Spectrum and Good Weekend supplements, PEN Melbourne, Griffith Review, Sydney Review of Books, the City of Melbourne/Metro Tunnels Melbourne Writers Festival commissions, TEXT, Kill Your Darlings, ABC Everyday, The Conversation, New Writing, and Melbourne on Film, an anthology marking the 70th anniversary of the Melbourne International Film Festival. As a researcher in writing, publishing and applied creative writing, his current partners are Melbourne Knowledge Week, Creative Australia, the National Library of Australia, and Craig Walker Design. He's recently been engaged to speak on books and culture at Melbourne Writers Festival, Sydney Writers Festival, Adelaide Writers Week, ABC Radio National, RRR, Melbourne Theatre Company, Writers SA and the Wheeler Centre. He is a Montserrat Roig grantee from the Barcelona Institute of Culture, a 2024 fellow at HKBU International Writers Week, and a two-time MacDowell Fellow.

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Research

His current research is into fiction, AIDS memory and 'post-crisis' representation; consciousness and the nonhuman (including animals and AI); cultures of Australian comics; and novel ways to interview for creative projects and map oral histories.

Research keywords

Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Graphic Storytelling, Creative Practice, Applied Creative Writing, AI

Research output summary

9

Publications

1

Projects

2

Awards

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Key activities

  • Course coordinator, COMM2647 Essay Project
  • Course coordinator, COMM2652 Major Project
  • Convenor, Comics studies reading group
  • Academic advisor, Third-year

Supervisor interest areas

  • Contemporary fiction and nonfiction, voice and form
  • 20th Century literature and literary modernism
  • Graphic narrative and graphic storytelling
  • Australian comics 1980-present
  • Queer storytelling
  • Creative writing and social change
  • Consciousness, the nonhuman, animals and AI

Supervisor projects

  • 8 current Ph.D. supervisions

Feature publications

The world breaks in two: thinking through HIV in creative writing practice towards an aesthetics of post-crisis

New Writing, 18, 177 - 185

Scott, R. (2021).

Graphic Storytellers at Work

Australia Council for the Arts Sydney, Australia

Grant, P., Clark, G., McFarlane, E., Scott, R. (2021).

The Adversary

The Adversary Melbourne, Australia

Scott, R. (2020).

Key publications by year

  • Scott, R. 2023, 'Shirley', A Novel, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House, Australia

  • Scott, R. 2022, 'Comics into Adversary: A consideration of how comics thinking can inform the representational challenges of post-crisis creative writing', in TEXT, Australasian Association of Writing Programs, Australia, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 1-13 ISSN: 1327-9556
  • Scott, R. 2022, 'Sex and the Single Subject Position', Sydney Review of Books, Sydney Review of Books, Sydney, Australia
  • Scott, R. 2022, 'Monkey Grip', Melbourne on Film, Black Inc, Melbourne, Australia

  • Scott, R. (2021). The world breaks in two: thinking through HIV in creative writing practice towards an aesthetics of post-crisis In: New Writing, 18, 177 - 185
  • Grant, P., Clark, G., McFarlane, E., Scott, R. (2021). Graphic Storytellers at Work In: Australia Council for the Arts Sydney, Australia
  • Scott, R. (2021). Graphic Storytellers at Work: the comic In: Graphic Storytellers at Work: the comic Sydney, Australia
  • Scott, R., Buck, S., Butler, J., Cruz, J. (2021). Queerness, form and time: A dialogue through case studies from creative writing practice In: Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, 25, 1 - 20

  • Aung Thin, M., Michael, R., Scott, R. (2020). First Pages Questions for Editing In: Writing in Practice: The Journal of Creative Writing Research, 6, 1 - 14
  • Scott, R. (2020). The Adversary In: The Adversary Melbourne, Australia

  • O'Shaughnessy, T., Michael, R., Scott, R. (2019). From Cultural Entrepreneurs to an Apprenticeship Practice In: Book Publishing in Australia: A Living Legacy, Monash University Publishing, Clayton, Australia
  • Rendle-Short, F., Taylor, S.,Scott, R., Ellis, M. (2019). DISRUPT: Mapping the future of Melbourne through stories In: Melbourne Knowledge Week Melbourne Australia
  • Scott, R. (2019). Aussies, Rogues and Slackers: Simon Hanselmann’s Megg, Mogg and Owl Comics as Contemporary Instances of Rogue Literature In: Text Matters, 9, 137 - 152
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Feature projects

Contemporary Australian Comics 1980 – 2020: A New History (administered by University of Melbourne)

Funded by: ARC Linkage via Other University

2020 - 2023

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Awards

Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (shortlist)

Award date: 2021

Recipients: Ronnie Scott

Queensland Literary Award (shortlist)

Award date: 2020

Recipients: Ronnie Scott

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Grants

  • Contemporary Australian Comics 1980 – 2020: A New History (administered by University of Melbourne). Funded by: ARC Linkage via Other University from (2020 to 2023)
  • Shirley. Funded by: Creative Victoria, Dept. of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources from (2019 to 2019)
  • The Adversary. Funded by: Australia Council for the Arts - Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups 2017, Round 1 from (2017 to 2017)
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.