Assoc Professor Francesca Rendle-Short
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Position |
Associate Professor |
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School / |
Media and Communication |
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Contact Details |
+(61 3) 9925 9052 |
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Location |
Building: 36 |
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College/Portfolio |
Design & Social Context |
- Profile
- Research
- Publications
Research
Francesca is interested in the following areas:
Creative writing, practice-led research, experimental writing and hybrid forms, autobiography and memoir, writing the body, ‘life writing’ and fiction, microfictions (twitter-fictions), creative writing and wellbeing.
She is involved in the following:
- Co-Director with Associate Professor David Carlin, nonfictionLab
- Co-leader with Associate Professor David Carlin, StoriesNOW (NonfictioNOW conference support + Creators-in-Residence Program), 2012-2103
- Member, steering committee for the 2012 Bedell NonfictioNOW Conference 2011–2012, a joint venture between RMIT and The University of Iowa
- Member, Poetry 4 U, creating a new city of literature space adding layers over/under/through geo coordinates
- Member, International Editorial Board of AXON: Creative Explorations
- Member, Writers Victoria, Committee of Management
Research (completed) supervisions
- Kerry Munnery, MA, ‘The Mirror House: Writing the uncanny in the Australian suburbs’
- Romana Dalgheish, ‘Ten deranged girls and a dog walk home: constructions of the self through sudden memoir’
Research (current) supervisions
- Melody Ellis, PhD, ‘Secretly in a boat I went’
- Bianca Frost, PhD, ‘A land without home’
- Tony McMahon, PhD, ‘Sickness Country: remembering to forget’
- Joanna Baker, PhD, ‘To deserve such pain: the intersection of timelessness with time’