Birth Date: 1 Jan 1943
Gareth Griffiths is emeritus professor of English and cultural studies at the University of Western Australia and a professorial fellow at the University of Wollongong. His many books include A Double Exile, African and West Indian Literatures in English (1978) and African Literatures in English-East and West (2000). He is coauthor of The Empire Writes Back (1989) and Indigenous Evangelists and Questions of Authority in the British Empire 1750-1940 (2015) and coeditor of The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (1995); Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies (1998); Mixed Messages: Materality, Textuality (2005); and Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies (2003).