Ronnie Scott

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

• 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

• 8 current Ph.D. supervisions