Michael R. Griffiths is a literary scholar whose work focuses principally on settler colonial literatures and histories. Within this concern he is especially interested with the representation of Indigenous peoples. He joined the School of The Arts, English, and Media in 2014. He received his PhD in English from Rice University in 2012, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society from 2012 to 2014.
Griffiths' first monograph was released in 2018: The Distribution of Settlement: Appropriation and Refusal in Australian Literature and Culture (UWAP) and details the genealogy, history and legacy of appropriation in representations of and by Aboriginal people in Australian literature.Year | Title |
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Funding Scheme: Grant |
Degree | Research Title | Advisee | |
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Doctor of Philosophy | The Founding of a Trinidad and Tobago national Theatre Praxis: The Dramatic Works of Derek Walcott, Errol Hill & Rawle Gibbons | ||
Doctor of Creative Arts | Konfrontasi: The Untold Experiences f Australian Soldiers and their Families in a Forgotten War Novel: "Konfrontasi' | Stevenson, Kylie | |
Doctor of Philosophy | The pitfalls and promises of Postcolonial Discourse Theory | Mansourizeyni, Sina | |
Doctor of Philosophy | The representation of nonhuman animals in Australian children's and young adult literature | Clark, Ellanor |
Dr. Michael R. Griffiths Senior Lecturer, English Literatures School of The Arts, English and Media
Room No. G31 | Building 25 University of Wollongong NSW 2522
Gwyneville
NSW
2522
Australia
Year | Title |
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Funding Scheme: Grant |
Degree | Research Title | Advisee | |
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Doctor of Philosophy | The Founding of a Trinidad and Tobago national Theatre Praxis: The Dramatic Works of Derek Walcott, Errol Hill & Rawle Gibbons | ||
Doctor of Creative Arts | Konfrontasi: The Untold Experiences f Australian Soldiers and their Families in a Forgotten War Novel: "Konfrontasi' | Stevenson, Kylie | |
Doctor of Philosophy | The pitfalls and promises of Postcolonial Discourse Theory | Mansourizeyni, Sina | |
Doctor of Philosophy | The representation of nonhuman animals in Australian children's and young adult literature | Clark, Ellanor |
Dr. Michael R. Griffiths Senior Lecturer, English Literatures School of The Arts, English and Media
Room No. G31 | Building 25 University of Wollongong NSW 2522
Gwyneville
NSW
2522
Australia