Helen M. Tiffin is an adjunct professor of English at the

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, and an influential writer in post-colonial theory and literary studies. Tiffin returned to Australia from

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to take up her present post at the University of Tasmania. She was formerly Professor of English and

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(Tier 1) in English and Post-Colonial Studies at Queen's University. Prior to her move to Canada, Tiffin held the post of Professor in the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History (EMSAH) at the

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, where she was a founder member of the Postcolonial Research Group. Tiffin's research and teaching interests include the history of colonial and post-colonial settler societies, literatures in English, Caribbean studies, literary theory, and more recently, the literary and cultural representation of animals. Tiffin was elected Fellow of the

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in 2009.

Principal works

* Robert Cribb, Helen Gilbert and Helen Tiffin. ''Wild Man from Borneo: A Cultural History of the Orangutan.'' University of Hawai'i Press, 2014: shortlisted for the General History Prize,

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2015. * Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin. ''Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment.'' Routledge, 2010. * Helen Tiffin, ed. ''Five Emus to the King of Siam: Environment and Empire.'' Rodopi, 2007. * Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. ''The Post-Colonial Studies Reader.'' Routledge, 2006. * Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. ''The Empire Writes Back: Post-Colonial Literatures, Theory & Practice.'' Routledge, 1989; revised edition, 2002. * Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin. ''Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies.'' Routledge, 1998. * Diana Brydon and Helen Tiffin. ''Decolonising Fictions: Comparative Studies in Post-Colonial Literatures.'' Dangaroo, 1993. * Gillian Whitlock, Helen Tiffin, John Pengwerne Matthews, eds. ''Re-Siting Queen's English: Text and Tradition in Post-colonial Literatures : Essays Presented to John Pengwerne Matthews.'' Rodopi, 1992. * Stephen Slemon and Helen Tiffin, eds. ''After Europe: Critical theory and post-colonial writing.'' Dangaroo Press, 1990. * Ian Adam and Helen Tiffin. ''Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-colonialism and Post-modernism.'' University of Calgary Press, 1990. * Chris Tiffin and Helen Tiffin. ''South Pacific Stories.'' South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 1980.

References

External links

Postcolonial Research Group, University of Queensland

Bibliography
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