Parsing the aside (the poetics of immersion and patience as dialogue)

Dr Francesca Rendle-Short is an Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. She is co-director of the nonfictionLab research group and the Writers Immersion Cultural Exchange (WrICE) research program. She is an award-winning novelist, memoirist and essayist, and author of the critically acclaimed memoir-cum-novel Bite Your Tongue (Spinifex). Recent scholarly work has been published internationally in NANO: New American Notes Online, The Essay Review (University of Iowa), New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing and Life Writing, as well as TEXT and Axon: Creative Explorations. Her creative works have been published widely, including in The Best Australian Science Writing 2013 (NewSouth) and Overland. She was an International Writing Fellow at the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English at the University of Iowa in 2013 and her research was showcased in 2015 Outstanding Field: Artistic Research Emerging from the Academy, Victorian College of the Arts.