Angelina Hurley is an Aboriginal woman from Brisbane, Australia. Her heritage is of Jagera, Gooreng Gooreng, Mununjali, Birriah and Kamilaroi descent. She is the daughter of renowned Aboriginal visual artist Ron Hurley. Her writing debuted with her short film Aunty Maggie and the Womba Wakgun, 2009. A Fulbright Indigenous Scholar in 2011, she's undertaking a PhD at Griffith University, entitled Pointing the Funny Bone: Blak Comedy and Aboriginal Cultural Perspectives on Humour, and writing an Aboriginal comedy television series. Angelina was also co-host of the popular radio show Wild Black Women on Brisbane's 98.9fms Let's Talk Program.
Experience
–present
PhD candidate, Griffith University
Education
2003
University of New South Wales, Masters of Arts Administration
2000
University of Technology, Sydney, Bachelor of Educations
Publications
2019
Pointing the Funny Bone. RED INK: An International Journal of Indigenous Literature., 1
2018
Of mice and meh. Witness, Performance Discussion Community. , 1
2018
The Gospel According to Angelina. Trick edition, The Wheeler Centre, Dec 2018., 1
2018
Of mice and meh. Blak Brow: The Blak Women's Edition, Issue 40, Nov, 26, 2018. , 1
2017
Review: Violence of Denial. Blak Critics Program. Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival, Melbourne. , 1
2017
Yay! It's Yirramboi. Blak Critics Program. Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival, Melbourne, 1
2017
Review: Chasing Smoke. Blak Critics Program. Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival, Melbourne. , 1
2017
Review: SHORE: Story. Blak Critics Program. Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival, Melbourne. , 1
2015
My Inheritance of Humour. Narrative Witness, Indigenous Peoples Australia-United States, [Online]., 1