Michael R. Griffiths Dr
Senior Lecturer
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Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
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School of the Arts, English and Media
Overview
Overview
Michael R. Griffiths is a literary scholar whose work focuses, for the most part, on settler colonialism and representation of and by 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.Griffiths has also intervened into debates about the precarities of free speech and hate speech. With Tanja Dreher, he co-edited a special issue of Continuum which offered an account of freedom of speech debates in the late liberal world. This special issue received sufficient hits and citations to be reprinted as a (forthcoming) book from Taylor and Francis.
He has also published articles on numerous other topics, including: poetics and intention in postcolonial literature following the work of Edouard Glissant, whiteness in the settler colonial public sphere, Daniel Defoe and critical animal studies, and the Bildungsroman in Africa. This work has appeared in such venues as Discourse, Postcolonial Studies, Postmodern Culture, Textual Practice and Humanimalia, as well as in a number of edited collections. He is an editorial board member of Antipodes and of Australian Literary Studies.
Griffiths is an active participant in Jindaola <https://www.uow.edu.au/about/learning-teaching/jindaola/> after having gone through the 2018–19 training.
He is Chair of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (SPACLALS). <https://southpacificaclals.wixsite.com/website>
Research Areas
Research Overview
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Griffiths is currently working on several article/chapter length studies of the following:
White representations of Aboriginality and Aboriginal people in the Australian novel (for the Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel Ed. Nicholas Birns and Louis Klee; and for The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel Ed. David Carter).
The representation of settler violence and history in Richard Flanagan's writing.
The politics of allegory and realism.
Available as Research Supervisor
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Selected Publications
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Investigator On
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| 2016 | Funding Scheme: Grant |
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Supervision
Available as Research Supervisor
Potential Supervision Topics
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- Postcolonial Literary Studies
- Settler Colonial Studies
- Critical Theory
- World Literature
- Critical Animal Studies and Ecocriticism
Advisees
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Graduate Advising Relationship
Degree Research Title Advisee 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 Subaltern Shadows in Mrs Dalloway Cahill, Michelle Doctor of Philosophy Good Composure: Mapping Shifting Norms in the Language of Televised Australian Rules Football Commentary. Allender, Samantha Doctor of Creative Arts Konfrontasi: The Untold Experiences f Australian Soldiers and their Families in a Forgotten War Novel: "Konfrontasi' Stevenson, Kylie
Service
Reviewer Of
- "Australian Literature" in (Academic Article) 2014 - 2018
Professional Service Activities
- Australian Literary Studies Editorial Advisory Board Member 2018 -
Contact
Mailing Address
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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
Identity
Orcid Id
- http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7501-906X (confirmed)
Overview
Top Publications
Research Areas
Research Overview
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Griffiths is currently working on several article/chapter length studies of the following:
White representations of Aboriginality and Aboriginal people in the Australian novel (for the Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel Ed. Nicholas Birns and Louis Klee; and for The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel Ed. David Carter).
The representation of settler violence and history in Richard Flanagan's writing.
The politics of allegory and realism.
Affiliation
Member Of
Publications
Selected Publications
Editor Of
Funding
Investigator On
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Funding Scheme: Grant |
Other Research Activities
Supervision
Potential Supervision Topics
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- Postcolonial Literary Studies
- Settler Colonial Studies
- Critical Theory
- World Literature
- Critical Animal Studies and Ecocriticism
Advisees
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Graduate Advising Relationship
Degree Research Title Advisee 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 Subaltern Shadows in Mrs Dalloway Cahill, Michelle Doctor of Philosophy Good Composure: Mapping Shifting Norms in the Language of Televised Australian Rules Football Commentary. Allender, Samantha Doctor of Creative Arts Konfrontasi: The Untold Experiences f Australian Soldiers and their Families in a Forgotten War Novel: "Konfrontasi' Stevenson, Kylie
Service
Reviewer Of
- "Australian Literature" in (Academic Article) 2014 - 2018
Professional Service Activities
- Australian Literary Studies Editorial Advisory Board Member 2018 -
Contact
Mailing Address
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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
Identity
Orcid Id
- http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7501-906X (confirmed)
