Gareth Griffiths (born 1943) is a

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-born academic, Emeritus Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the

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Life

Griffiths was born in Wales, and educated at Cyfarthfa Grammar School.UWA profile
/ref> Apart from a period as Chair at SUNY Albany, he has been based in Australia since 1973. He has also taught at

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and in the

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and

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. From 2002 to 2005 he chaired the English Department at

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in the

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. He is a Fellow of the

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. He has previously held positions as Head of the Theater Studies Council of Australia and Western Australian theatre reviewer for ''

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'' newspaper. Griffiths's work has primarily focused on

postcolonial Postcolonialism is the critical academic study of the cultural, political and economic legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands. More specifically, it is a ...

literature and theory, a topic on which he has been an influential contributor. He has published on the literatures of diverse third world and postcolonial spaces but his work has most significantly dealt with East and West Africa. He has also published significant works on the intersection of land and identity. His current research is on ideas of the secular and the sacred in the postcolonial world and on US/African relations in the 19th century.

Selected works

* (ed.) ''John Romeril''. Rodopi, 1993. * ''A Double Exile: African and West Indian Writing Between Two Culture''. Boyars, 1978. * (with Bill Ashcroft and Helen Tiffin) ''The Empire Writes Back: Post-Colonial Literatures, Theory & Practice''. Routledge, 1989; revised edition, 2002. * (with Bill Ashcroft and Helen Tiffin) ''Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies''. Routledge, 1998. * ''African Literatures in English: East and West''. Routledge 2000. * (ed. with David S. Trigger). ''Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies''. Hong Kong University Press, 2003. * (ed. with Jamie S. Scott). ''Mixed Messages: Materiality, Textuality, Missions''. Palgrave, 2005. * (with Bill Ashcroft and Helen Tiffin) ''The Post-Colonial Studies Reader''. Routledge, 2006.

References

External links

* http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/gareth.griffiths * https://web.archive.org/web/20120325224757/http://aah.merlinfx.net/Fellowship/FindFellows/tabid/123/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1499/Gareth-Griffiths.aspx {{DEFAULTSORT:Griffiths, Gareth 1943 births Living people Australian people of Welsh descent Academic staff of the University of Western Australia Literary scholars People educated at Cyfarthfa Grammar School Welsh academics of English literature