Gabrielle Griffin
BA (Leicester) MA (London) PhD (Leicester)
Staff member's name
Contact details
Email:gg512@york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 433030
Ext: 3030
Office: Grimston House
Research Interests
My research interest’s centre on contemporary women’s cultural production, particularly theatre; on Women’s Studies as a discipline; on humanities research methods and feminist methodology; diaspora and postcoloniality; and on lesbian writing.
Publications
Research Methods for English Studies (ed.) Edinburgh UP (2005);
Doing Women's Studies: Employment Opportunities, Personal Impacts and Social Consequences (ed.) Zed Books (2005);
Employment, Equal Opportunities and Women's Studies: Women's Experiences in Seven European Countries (ed.) Ulrike Helmer Verlag (2004);
Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain Cambridge UP (2003);
Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing Routledge (2002);
Thinking Differently: A Reader in European Women's Studies (with Rosi Braidotti) Zed Books (2002);
HIV/AIDS and Representation: Visibility Blue/s Manchester UP (2000).
'The Remains of the British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock', Mary Luckhurst, (ed.) A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama Blackwell (2006).
'Theatres of Difference: The Politics of "Redistribution" and "Recognition" in the Plays of Contemporary Black and Asian Playwrights', Feminist Review 84 (2006): 10-28.
'The Institutionalization of Women's Studies in Europe: Findings from an EU-funded Research Project on Women's Studies and Women's Employment', (E. Blimlinger, T. Gerstenauer, eds.) Women's/Gender Studies: Against All Odds Studienverlag (2005).
‘Troublng Identities: Claire Dowie’s Why Is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?’, Women and Theatre: Auto/biography and Identity (eds. V. Gardner and M. Gale) Manchester UP (2004).
'Exile and the Body', Cultures of Exile: Images of Displacement (eds. W. Everett and P. Wagstaff) Berghahn Books (2004).
'Constitutive Subjectivities: Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain', European Journal of Women's Studies 10/4 (2003): 377-394.
'(Other) Feminisms - European Women's Studies', Hecate 29/2 (2003): 50-61.
Humboldt, Mickey Mouse and Current European Research Programmes - or Where are the Women in All This?', Kvinder kon forskning 12/2 (2003): 31-43.
Women's Employment, Women's Studies and Equal Opportunities 1945-2001: Reports from nine European Countries (ed) University of Hull (2002).
'Co-option or transformation? Women's and Gender Studies Worldwide' (eds. H. Flessner and L. Potts) Societies in Transition - Challenges to Women's and Gender Studies (Opladen: Leske and Budrich, 2002).
Biography
I took a BA (Hons) at the University of LeicesteMay 12, 2008s. Subsequently, I did an MA in ‘Tradition and Innovation in 20 th Century Literature’ at University College London (1983), a Postgrad Diploma in Teaching and Curriculum Development in Higher Education at the Institute of Education in London (1986), and a PhD on Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch’s writings at the University of Leicester (1989). I started teaching in higher education in 1979, and through my interests in women’s writing came into Women’s Studies. I have had chairs in both English and in Women’s or Gender Studies. I enjoy the interdisciplinarity of Women’s Studies and the scope for conducting diverse kinds of research that this offers.