Dr. Ronnie Scott
Details
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College: School of Media & Communication
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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ronnie.scott@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-4798-7661
Open to
- Media enquiries
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Ronnie Scott is the author of two novels: The Adversary (2020), which was a book of the year in the Age and shortlisted for a Queensland Literary Award and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal; and Shirley (2023), which was a Guardian book of the year and shortlisted for both the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the Voss Prize.
He’s a Chief Investigator on Folio, an oral history storytelling project about Australian comics in partnership with the National Library of Australia, Creative Australia and Craig Walker Design and funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Scheme. He is the lead editor of Folio: Essays on Australian Comics, the first collection of scholarship about Australian comics, which will be published by Palgrave in 2025, and his third novel, Letter to a Fortunate Ex, will be published by Penguin in 2026.
In 2024, he is a critic for the Good Food Guide, a judge in the Queensland Literary Awards and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and a mentor in the Kill Your Darlings Mentorship Program. He's the editor of two previous anthologies, author of a Penguin Special and two previous books of nonfiction for the National Gallery of Victoria. He is a Montserrat Roig grantee, a fellow of Hong Kong Baptist University's International Writers Workshop, and a two-time MacDowell Fellow.
In the BA (Creative Writing), Ronnie coordinates the capstone Major Project and Essay Project courses and is third-year Academic Advisor. In the non/fictionLab research group, Ronnie co-convenes Gutter Stars, an intervarsity comics studies reading group.
Research fields
- 360201 Creative writing (incl. scriptwriting)
- 470599 Literary studies not elsewhere classified
- 470107 Media studies
UN sustainable development goals
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 5 Gender Equality
- 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Supervisor projects
- The allegory of annihilation - the Universe Gun
- 18 Jul 2024
- Exploring the unexplored and unwritten: A creative exploration and contribution to representation by closing gaps within YA gay literature.
- 10 Nov 2023
- The Animal Trying to Escape: Embracing an Unruly, Hybrid, Visual-textual Approach to Creative Writing Practice
- 9 May 2023
- The Doubting Memoir & Doubt and Craft in Creative Writing
- 1 Jan 2023
- What is the creative process of exploding and reassembling a novel draft and what are the effects and consequences on the published novel?
- 1 Jan 2023
- The Reparative-Drawer: A New Critical Approach to Reading Comics in a Time of Crisis
- 8 Jul 2022
- Queer Joy: Comedy in Queer Graphic Narratives
- 28 Jun 2022
- Living as Rotten Girls: Women’s Affects and Queer Fandom in China
- 13 Jun 2019
- You Are What You Feel: The Feeling of Precarious Work in the Contemporary Novel
- 1 Mar 2019
- For a Rainbow to Be Seen, the Sun Must Be Behind an Observer Who Is Facing Falling Rain
- 2 Jan 2019
- Beyond the Diary: Selfhood and Womanhood in Contemporary Autofictive Narratives.
- 6 Aug 2018
- The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Asian Australian: Confronting Assimilation Through Autoethnographic Reflection
- 28 Feb 2018
- The Museum of the Lost and Found: A Creative Practice Approach to Telling Adoptees' Stories
- 2 Oct 2017
Teaching interests
Key activities
Course coordinator, COMM2647 Essay Project
Course coordinator, COMM2652 Major Project
Academic advisor, Third-year
Co-convenor, Comics studies reading group
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
Programs
Research interests
Dr Scott's current research is into fiction, AIDS memory and 'post-crisis' representation; consciousness and the nonhuman (including animals and AI); Creative Writing as a set of interdisciplinary practices that can be applied to social challenges; cultures of Australian comics and graphic storytelling; 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
