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Research Interests:
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Work on missions and mission texts and their control of
the agency of the colonized subject.
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Textual representation of Africa and Africans
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The intersections of secular and sacral discourses and
practices in the post-Enlightenment period and the
implications of changes in these engagements for cultural,
social and political practices in the 21st century.
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Post-colonial theory and literature.
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Issues of identity, culture and land.
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Drama, performance and cultural representation
Memberships:
Member of the Editorial Advisory Boards for the following journals Kunapipi, Pretexts, Africa Identities and The Australasian Review of African Studies.
Honors and Awards: Fellowship of Australian Humanities Academy
Hugh LeMay Fellow, Rhodes University 2006 Publications:
Recent Research Publication (since 2000)
Trained to tell the truth': Missionary Narratives and Christian Converts" in Missions and Imperialism edited by Norman Etherington, Companion Volume, Oxford History of The British Empire, Oxford 2006.
The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (with Bill Ashcroft and Helen Tiffin), Routledge, London and New York, 1995. Second expanded edition with new sections and bibliography, 2006
"The World, The Text and Said" Introduction Esaay to Paradoxical Citizenship; Edward Said, edited Sylvia Nagy-Zekmi, Lexington Books, Landham, Md, 2006
"Sites of Purchase: Slavery, Missions and Tourism on Two Tanzanian Sites" in Leigh Dale and Helen Gilbert eds. Economies of Representation 1790-2000, Colonies and Commerce, London, Ashgate. 2007.
African Literatures in English: East and West, Longman Literature in English series, Longman, London, 2000. pp.414
The Empire Writes Back: the theory and practice of post-colonial literatures; (with W.D. Ashcroft & Helen Tiffin); New Accents Series, Routledge; London, 2002, pp.283. Second edition with upgraded bibliography and new chapter on recent developments in the field was published in 2002 as one of twelve texts in the series selected to be reissued for the 25 year celebration of this prestigious international series.
Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies edited David Trigger and Gareth Griffiths, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 2003, pp 340
Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess by J.J. Walters (1891), edited Gareth Griffiths and John V. Singler, Broadview Editions, Broadview Press, Calgary and Toronto, 2004. Edition with introduction, full notes and scholarly apparatus. pp.205.
Mixed Messages: Materialities, Textualities, Missions, edited Gareth Griffiths and Jamie S. Scott, Palgrave, London and New York, 2005, pp 268.
Earlier Research Publications
Books
Green Days by the River by Michael Anthony; Edition with intoduction Heinemann, Caribbean Writer's Series, No.9, 1973. pp. 191
A Double Exile: African and West Indian Writing Between Two Cultures: Boyars; London 1978. pp. 205
Arabic Language Edition, Afaq 'arabijay; Baghdad 1987.
John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger": Notes and Commentary; York Notes; Longman's 1981 pp 72.
The Empire Writes Back: the theory and practice of post-colonial literatures; (with W.D. Ashcroft & Helen Tiffin); New Accents Series, Routledge; London, 1989, pp. 246. There were nine reprints of this edition
Translations of this text:
Korean Language Edition, Minumsa Publications, Seoul, 1996.
Japanese Language Edition, The English Agency, Tokyo, Japan. 1998.
Chinese (Mandarin) Language Edition, Ban qiao: Luo tuo chu ban she, (Camel Publishing Co.), 1998
John Romeril edited, Australian Playwright Series, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1993, pp. 228
The Post-Colonial Studies Reader edited (with Bill Ashcroft and Helen Tiffin), Routledge, 1995, pp. 526.
Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies (with Bill Ashcroft and Helen Tiffin), Routledge, London 1998, pp. 275.
Pamphlets and Short texts
English Literature Since 1940 Introductory pamphlet accompanying boxed selection of 30 contemporary British texts selected by me; British Council in India; New Delhi, 1971, pp 11.
Representations of Race/Ethnicity and Class in Literature (with Ian Saunders), English, UWA 1997, pp 47.
Special Issues of Journals
Post-colonial Drama (editor) Special Issue New Literatures Review, No. 19, Summer South, 1990 pp. 119.
Sections of Chapters in Books
"The Language of Disillusion in the African Novel" in commonwealth, ed. Anna Rutherford; Aarhus Akademisk Boghandel, Aarhus, 1971, pp. 62-72.
Entries in A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms; ed. Roger Fowler; Routledge, 1973. (Reissued in an enlarged version 1987). New entries written for the reissued edition now in press.
"Traditional Practices and Contemporary Concerns in the Plays of Wole Soyinka" in Individual and Community in Commonwealth Literature ed. Daniel Massa: Univ. of Malta, Msida, 1979, pp. 45-50.
"Adamic Visions: Culture and Discourse in Michael Anthony's "Sandra Street" in New Literatures in English: a Critical Perspective; ed. Wolfgang Zach; Peter Lang; Berne/New York, 1991, pp. 131-139.
"Post-Colonial Space and Time: Wilson Harris and Caribbean Criticism" in Wilson Harris: The Uncompromising Imagination ed. Hena Maes-Jelinek, Dangaroo Press, Aarhus/London/Sydney, 1991.
"Unhappy the Land That has a Need of Heroes': John Romeril's Asian plays" in Myths, Heroes and Anti-Heroes, ed. Bruce Bennett and Dennis Haskell, CSAL, 1992, pp. 142-154.
"The Myth of Authenticity: representation, discourse and social practice" in De-Scribing Empire: Post-coloniality and textuality ed. Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson, Routledge, London, 1994, pp. 70-85.
"Representing Difference in Sam Watson's 'The Kadaitcha Sung'", in a Talent(ed) Digger, ed. H. Maes-Jelintek, G. Collier and G.V. Davis, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1996, pp. 471-484.
"The Post-Colonial Project: Critical Approaches and Problems" in New National and Post-Colonial Literatures, ed. Bruce King, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996, pp. 164-177.
"Writing, literacy and history in Africa" in Writing and Africa, eds. Mpalive-Hangson Msiska and Paul Hyland, Longmans, London, 1997, pp. 139-158.
"Islands of Community: Autobiographical Accounts of Indian Displaced Communities - Subject, Community and Nation" in The Contact and the Culmination, ed. Marc Delrez and Benedicte Ledent, Liege Studies in Language and Literature, University of Liege, 1997, pp. 321-332.
"Tradition, Decolonisation and Gender: Achebe and Emecheta" in "and Gladly Wolde She Teche", Festschrift for Professor Yasmine Gooneratne, Argus Press, London, 1999.
"Afterword: Post-Coloniality, Religion, Geography: Keeping Our Feet on the Ground and Our Heads Up." In Jamie S Scott and Paul Simpson-Housley, eds. Mapping the Sacred: Religion, Geography and Post-colonial Literatures, Cross/Cultures Series No.48, Editions Rodopi BV. Amsterdam and Atlanta, 2001, pp. 445-462.
"Appropriation and Control, the Role of the Missionary Text" in Missions and Colonies in the English-speaking World, ed. Gerhard Stilz, Stauffenberg Verlag, Tubingen, 2001, pp. 13-23.
"The Novelists and the Historians: Fiction and the Gendering of the Nigerian Past" African Writers and Their Readers, Vol 2, edited by Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow, Africa World Press, Trenton. NJ, 2002. pp 91-116.
Refereed Artlicles
"Language and Action in the Novels of Chinua Achebe" in African Literature Today No. 5; 1971, pp. 88-105. (reissued in Critical Perspectives on Achebe ed. C.L. Innes and Bernth Lindfors; Three Continents Press; Washington, 1978, pp. 67-85.
"Structure and Image in Ayi Kwei Armah's 'The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born" in Studies in Black Literature, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1971, pp. 1-9 (double columned), (Reissued in Critical Perspectives on Ayi Kwei Armah ed. Derek Wright; Three Continents Press; Washington, 1992, pp. 75-91).
"New Lines- English Theatre in the Sixties and After" in Kansas Quarterly 3,2, Spring 1971, pp. 77-88.
"Experiments with Form in recent Australian Drama" Kunapipi, 2,1, 1980, pp. 70-95
"Theatre Reviewing in Australia" Meanjin Special Issue, The Performing Arts in Australia, ed. Jack Hibberd; 43, 1, March, 1984, pp. 460-472.
"Australian Subject and Australian Style: the Plays of Louis Nowra" in Commonwealth: Essays and Studies; 6, 2, spring, 1984, pp. 42-48. (Reissued in Louis Nowra ed. Veronica Kelly; Australian Playwrights, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1987, pp. 91-98.)
"Imitation, Abrogation and Appropriation: the production of the post-colonial text" Kunapipi, 9, 1, 1987, pp. 13-20.
"Chinua Achebe When Did You Last See Your Father? World Literature Written in English 27,1, Spring 1987, pp. 18-26.
"Of Marx and Missionaries: Soyinka and the Survival of Universalism in Post-colonial Literary Theory" (with David Moody) Kunapipi, 11,1,1989, pp.74-85, (Reissued in H Tiffin and S Slemon (eds.) After Europe: Postcolonial Literary Theory, Dangaroo Press, Aarhus, 1989)
"Being there, being There: Kosinsky and Malouf: Post-modernism and post-colonialism", Ariel, Vol 20, No. 4, 1989, pp 132-148, (Reissued in Past the Last Post: Essays in the Theory of Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism, University of Calgary Press, 1990).
"Malouf's 'An Imaginary Life': The Post-colonial Text as Transformative Representation" Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, 16,2, spring 1993, pp. 61-69.
"The Parochial Metropolis: A View from the West", Special Issue, 'Pearls before Swine, Theatre Reviewing in Australia', ed. Alison Richards and Geoffrey Milne, Meanjin, 43,3 Spring, 1994, pp. 460-466.
"Radical Messages: Content, Form and Agency in the Drama of Femi Osofisan" Essays in theatre/Etudes Theatrales, Vol 14, No. 1, Nov. 1995, pp. 15-24.
"John Romeril's Wars: The Dissenting View" Kunapipi, Vol. xvii, Nos 2 and 3, 1996, pp 261-273 (Special issue simultaneously published as a book War: Australia's Creative Response ed. Anna Rutherford and James Wieland, Dangaroo, Aarhus/Condon/Sydney, 1997)
"Documentation and Communication in Post-Colonial Societies: The Politics of Control" in The Yearbook of English Studies, (The Politics of Postcolonial Criticism, ed. Andrew Gurr), MHRA, Vol 27,1997, pp. 130-136.
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