Personal profile

Biography

Dr Kyle Harvey is a Research Fellow in the School of Media, Film and Journalism, and works on the Australian Research Council-funded Linkage Project Comedy Country: Australian Performance Country as an Agent of Change. His research explores the lived experiences of migration, culture and social change in Australian media and performance, and is particularly focused on the intersecting processes of diasporas, mobility and performance in Australia, Asia, and the Middle East. Kyle's research also encompasses media history, migration history, and the history of radicalism and social movements, oral history, intellectual history, memory, biography, and the history of education.

Kyle's work has been published in Media International Australia (2020), History Australia (2017), Labour History (2016) and in edited collections such as The Oxford Handbook of Peace History (2022), Translating Worlds: Migration, Memory and Culture (2020) and Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia (2019).

Education/Academic qualification

Ph.D., Macquarie University

Award Date: 1 May 2012

B.A. (Hons), University of Newcastle

Award Date: 1 Dec 2006

Research area keywords

  • Australian history
  • Media History
  • Transnational and migration studies
  • International Migration
  • mobilities
  • Migration history
  • Cultural diversity
  • Cultural History
  • Comedy
  • Performing Arts
  • Transnationalism