Carlin, David: - David Carlin is Professor in Media and Communication at RMIT University. Co-founder of WrICE and non/fictionLab, his research interests include essaying and hybrid, collaborative and ecocritical forms and methods. Recent books include The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet (2019) and 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (2019).
Loon, Julienne Van: - Julienne van Loon is Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Melbourne University, Australia and Honorary Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include feminist literary practice, contemporary narrative fiction and literary value. Publications include The Thinking Woman (2020), Harmless (2014), Beneath the Bloodwood Tree (2008), and Road Story (2005). She is managing editor at TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, see https: //textjournal.scholasticahq.com/
Murray, Peta: - Peta Murray is Lecturer in Creative Writing at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her research focus is the role of language and arts-based practices as modes of inquiry and forms of cultural activism. Publications include plays such as Salt (2001), fiction including Indigestion (2010), collaborative, queer and multi-modal works of live art such as vigil/wake (2019), and adventures in the essayesque, Glossalalalararium Pandemiconium (2020).
Rendle-Short, Francesca: - Francesca Rendle-Short is Professor of Creative Writing in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is interested in a research practice that seeks to subvert normative practices, one focused on ethical enquiry. She is co-founder of non/fictionLab and WrICE (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange). Her five books include The Near and the Far (Vol I and II; 2016, 2019) and Bite Your Tongue (2011).
Sunstein, Bonnie: - Bonnie Sunstein is professor of English and education at the University of Iowa, USA, where she serves as Director of Undergraduate Writing in English and Program Chair in English Education. She teaches courses in research, non-fiction writing, American folklore, and English education. She has over thirty years of teaching secondary and college English in New England, where she continues to teach in the summers, at the University of New Hampshire and Northeastern University's Martha's Vineyard Institute on Writing and Teaching.
Taylor, Stayci: - Stayci Taylor is Senior Lecturer at RMIT University in the School of Media and Communication. Her research interests include screenwriting, script development, nonfiction and creative practice. She has published in all of these areas, in both scholarly and creative outlets, and often through the lenses of gender and comedy. She is lead editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Script Development (2021).
Wardle, Deborah: - Deborah Wardle has fiction, nonfiction and peer-reviewed articles in Australian and international journals. Deborah teaches at RMIT University and University of Melbourne. Her PhD thesis explores the ways climate fiction expresses the 'voices' of more-than-human entities, particularly groundwater. Her book with Routledge Subterranean Imaginings: Groundwater Narratives is due 2023.
Webb, Jen: -
Jen Webb is Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice at the University of Canberra, Australia. She was the inaugural director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, and remains a core member of that Centre.
Her main research interest is the relationship between what Pierre Bourdieu termed 'the field of cultural production'-the broad sphere of creative practice-and the social domain, including the political and sociocultural, the practical and the economic, the local and the global. Her current major projects investigate aspects of creativity, and creative production, and the creative producer, and she has been supported in this by several ARC Discovery projects, the most recent of which is
So what do you do? Graduates in the Creative and Cultural Industries (DP160101440).
Academics working in the creative field typically have their own creative practice, and Jen's works include lyric and prose poetry, short fictions, and artist books. She is the holder of the inaugural ACT Poet of the Year Award, as well as many other literary awards. She is also the ACT editor for the
Australian Book Review's States of Poetry mini-anthologies (2015-2017), chair of the NSW Premier's Literary Award (Kenneth Slessor Award for Poetry), and co-editor for the Australasian Association of Writing Program's literary journal,
Meniscus.
Jen's recent works include the scholarly volumes
Researching Creative Writing (2015),
Art and Human Rights: Contemporary Asian Contexts (with Caroline Turner; 2016); and the Oxford University Press bibliography entry for Pierre Bourdieu (2017). Her recent volumes of poetry include S
tolen Stories, Borrowed Lines (2015),
Sentences from the Archive (2016), and
Moving Targets (2018). She produced all the photographs for a collaborative poetry/photography volume, with Paul Hetherington:
Watching the World (2015). With Paul Hetherington, she is also editor of the bilingual (Chinese/Australian) anthology of poetry,
Open Windows: Contemporary Australian Poetry (2016); and of the academic journal
Axon: Creative Explorations.
