Humanities and Social Sciences

History Program

Staff Profiles

Dr Kylie Mirmohamadi

Research Interests

Australian garden history
cultural history
literary cultures of nineteenth-century Melbourne
ethnicity and multiculturalism.

Research Publications

Books

• [ed. With Katie Holmes and Susan K. Martin], Green Pens: A Collection of Garden Writing, Carlton: Miegunyah Press, 2004
• [With Katie Holmes and Susan K. Martin] Reading the Garden: The Settlement of Australia, Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2008

Peer-reviewed Articles

• “ ‘Wog Plants Go Home’: Race, Ethnicity and Horticulture in Australia”, Studies in Australian Garden History, no. 1, pp. 91-108, 2002
• “Cultivating the Australian Gardener: Native Plants and Victorian State School Gardens in the Federation Era”, in Sian Supski (ed) The Real Thing, Australian Cultural History, 24, pp. 81-98, 2006
• “Talking about native plants …”, Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique, 12, pp. 91-102, 2006

Book Chapters

• “ ‘There will be the garden, of course’: English gardens, British migrants, and Australia”, in Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Kiera Lindsey and Stuart Macintyre(eds), Exploring the British World, Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, pp. 209-222, 2004
• “ ‘The great and wonderful labyrinth’: Female Traffic through Melbourne Streets and Exhibition Spaces in Ada Cambridge’s The Three Miss Kings” in Sue Thomas (ed), Victorian Traffic: Identity, Exchange, Performance, Cambridge University Press, pp. 263-272, 2008

Reviewed

• Review of Allaine Cerwonka, Native to the Nation: Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in Australia, in Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Volume 4, pp. 213-217, 2005