Associate Professor of Screen and Media at Edith Cowan University (2024 – ongoing)
Teaching across the Masters of Screen Production at the West Australian Screen Academy. Storytelling and Research across the School of Creative Humanities.
Chief Investigator in a successful ARC Linkage grant. (2022-2025)
Role: Subject Matter Expert in digital narrative creation and analysis, mentor for early career researchers and students.
Project Title: ‘Thriving in Vertical Schools: The impact of urban vertical schools on students’ capability and wellbeing’ (LP200301274).
Previous roles
Queensland University of Technology
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education, and Social Justice in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership
(2022 – 2024)
University of Sydney
Scriptwriter, story and interactive consultant
The story of NRL legend and signatory ti the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Percy Knight.
Co-Design Research Group
Business School Co-Design Team
(2021-2023)
The Australian National University
Story and Interactive Consultant
Murrudha: Sovereign Walks – tracking cultural actions through art, Country, language, and music
ANU Grand Challenges: Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Collaborative Scheme
(2021-2022)
Postgraduate and undergraduate teaching and supervision
Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
Visiting Scholar, Department of Film and Media Studies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire USA. (2012-2013)
Instructor/course creator: Social Justice Documentary: from observer to catalyst Department of Film and Media Studies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire USA. My guests included Ken Burns and acclaimed war photographer, James Nachtwey.
Interdisciplinary undergraduate thesis advisor, Department of Film and Media Studies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire USA. Ethnographic film production.
RMIT University
Course coordinator and lecturer Masters of Creative Media.
Documentary in the Digital Age
Concept Development
Supervisor Masters thesis
Supervisor Masters major projects.
Swinburne University
Lecturer and content creator for the 1st year Creative Writing subject, Writing Fiction, Department of Media and Communications.
University of Melbourne
Lecturer, Creative Writing, 2nd/3rd-year Creative Writing, Department of English:
Across the Genres
Writing Non-Fiction Forms
Writing Extended Fictions.
Cultural Studies Tutor, Contemporary Culture and Media, Department of English w/Cultural Studies as well as multiple guest lectures and presentations.
Kylie has also delivered multiple guest lectures, public lectures on her work as well as keynote addresses.
Projects listed on the syllabus or educational resources (select):
The Boat
Harvard University: HL90DK (https://scholar NULL.harvard NULL.edu/chnguyen/classes/hl90dk-drawing-asia-america-immigration-identities-and-representation-asian)Seminar: Asian/American Graphic Novels
Year 12 English in Western Australia (https://www NULL.insightpublications NULL.com NULL.au/product/year-12-english-western-australia-to-be-released/)by Dowsett, Trish; Guest, Martin; Kealley, Adam & White, Maria’s Insight Publications, 2019 p.59.
SBS Learn education resources, The Boat (https://www NULL.sbs NULL.com NULL.au/programs/go-back-to-where-you-came-from/article/2015/07/14/boat).
Phillips, Jennifer. Revising the Rhetoric of “Boat People” through the Interactive Graphic Adaptation of Nam Le’s “The Boat” (https://link NULL.springer NULL.com/chapter/10 NULL.1007/978-3-319-63459-3_10) in Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom. pp 149-166.
K’Gari: the True Story of a Real Fake
Primary resources: K’Gari
Secondary resource: K’Gari (https://www NULL.narragunnawali NULL.org NULL.au/curriculum-resource/160/kgari-secondary)
SBS Learn: K’Gari (https://www NULL.sbs NULL.com NULL.au/learn/always-will-be)
Academic studies on The Boat: (non-exhaustive)
Halsall, Alison. “Graphic Experiences of Immigration, Migration, and Diaspora: Shaun Tan’s The Arrival and Matt Huynh’s Interactive Graphic Adaptation of Nam Le’s ‘The Boat.’” Graphic Perspectives on Health and Embodiment. Eds. Lisa DeTora and Jodi Cressman. U Leuven Press.
Heinen, Sandra. “Fact, Fiction, and Everything in-between: Strategies of Reader Activation in Post Colonial Graphic Narratives,” in Narrative in Culture, Edited by Astrid Erll, Roy Sommer,. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2019 pp. 109-124
Phillips, Jennifer. “Revising the Rhetoric of ‘Boat People’ through the Interactive Graphic Adaptation of Nam Le’s ‘The Boat’.” Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom: Pedagogical Possibilities of Multimodal Literacy Engagement, edited by Alissa Burger, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 149-166. (https://culturestrike NULL.org/)