Gareth Griffiths
Male, Person
1943 –
Who is Gareth Griffiths?
Gareth Griffiths is Winthrop Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. He has also taught at Macquarie University in Sydney and in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, chairing the English Department at SUNY Albany from 2002-2006. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has previously held positions as Head of the Theater Studies Council of Australia and Western Australian theatre Rreviewer for the Australian Newspaper.
Griffiths was born in Wales and, apart from the period as Chair at SUNY Albany, has been based in Australia since 1973.
Griffiths's work has primarily focused on postcolonial 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.
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