Prof. Andrew Wright Hurley, LLB, PhD

 

Adjunct Professor

Member of the Australian Centre for Public History

Faculty of Design and Society

University of Technology Sydney

0417 372 637

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BIO

Andrew W. Hurley is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Design and Society at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is currently Head of School of the School of Social Work and Arts at Charles Sturt University.  Andrew is a former Head of School of the School of International Studies and Education at UTS.  Andrew is a core member of the Australan Centre for Public History. 

Andrew holds degrees in German and European Studies (B.A. (Hons.) and PhD (University of Melbourne) and Law (LLB, University of Melbourne), and has been admitted to practice as barrister and solicitor in the Supreme Court of Victoria.

Andrew is a cultural historian with a special interest in music, the acoustic and cultures of listening, as well as transnational history. He has written widely on interculturalities and intermediality.

Latest book: Free Action: Jazz as a Catalyst in West German Arts and Culture (Routledge, 2025), explains how music catalysed developments in the sister arts as younger Germans sought to remake the cultural landscape after 1945. 

He is also the author of

The Return of Jazz: Joachim-Ernst Berendt and West German Cultural Change (Berghahn Books, 2009, 2011),

Into The Groove: Popular Music and Contemporary German Fiction (Camden House, 2015); 

Ludwig Leichhardt's Ghosts: The Strange Career of a Traveling Myth (Camden House, 2018). 

Together with Lars Eckstein, he published a volume on Remembering Australian-German Colonial Entanglements (Routledge, 2020). 

Andrew's work on jazz in Germany was nominated for an award for excellence in historical recorded sound research (AFRSC). His work on acoustic history was shortlisted for the 2019 Pat Grimshaw prize: Australian Historical Studies best publication.

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