Selected Publications
R. Buikema, G. Griffin and N. Lykke (eds) Theories and Methodologies in Postgraduate Feminist Research: Researching Differently (Routledge)
Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights (Cambridge University Press)
Thinking Differently: A Reader in European Women's Studies (Zed Books)
Professor Gabriele Griffin
Anniversary Chair
Contact details
Email: gabriele.griffin@york.ac.uk
Biography
Gabriele Griffin completed her BA in English, German and Psychology in 1979 at the University of Leicester. Subsequently, she took an MA in Tradition and Innovation in 20th Century Literature at University College London (1983), a postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Curriculum Development in Higher Education at the Institute of Education, London (1986), and a PhD on the work of Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch at the University of Leicester (1989).
Through her interest in contemporary women’s writing she moved into Women’s and Gender Studies, and she has held a number of posts in British universities, either in English or in Women’s/Gender Studies.
Moving between these two intellectual locations has shaped her research which has partly focussed on contemporary women’s writing; women’s cultural production; feminist theatre; and writing diaspora, and partly on Women’s/Gender Studies as a discipline and more sociological topics such as women’s employment and violence against women.
Current research interests
My main current research interests are in women’s contemporary cultural production; women’s theatre; diaspora studies; narrative and identity; research methods in the arts and humanities.
Selected Publications/Editorships
I am editor of the ‘Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities’ series, Edinburgh University Press (see http://www.euppublishing.com/series/rmah).
Griffin, G. (2010) ‘On Not Engaging with What’s Under Our Noses, Or Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Reading Women’s Writing’, Transatlantic Conversations: Feminism as Travelling Theory, eds. Mary Evans and Kathy Davis, London: Ashgate.
Griffin, G. (2010) ‘Gabriele Griffin on Alice Walker’s The Color Purple’, Women: A Cultural Review21/1: 38-41.
Griffin, G. et al (2009) The METRIS Report: Emerging Trends in Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities in Europe. Brussels: European Commission.
Griffin, G. (2009) ‘Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Trends in the Social Sciences and Humanities’, Luidmila Pipiya, ed. The Social Sciences and Humanities: Research Trends and Collaborative Perspectives. Moscow: Russian Academy of Science. 11-27.
Griffin, G. (2009) ‘Science and the Cultural Imaginary: The Case of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go’, Textual Practice 23/4 (August): 645-664.
Griffin, G. (2009) ‘The “Ins” and “Outs” of Women’s/Gender Studies: A Response to Reports of Its Demise in 2008’, Women’s History Review 18/3 (July 2009): 485-496.
Griffin, G. (2008) ‘Accounting for One’s Self: Valerie Mason-John’s Sweep It Under the Carpet’, Deirdre Osbourne, ed. Hidden Gems. London: Oberon Books.
Griffin, G. (2008) ‘Security, Migration, Nanotechnology: The Place of Applied Linguistics in Contemporary Research Cultures’, Erika Werlen and Fabienne Tissot, eds. Sprachvermittlung in Europa. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag.
Griffin, G. (2008) ‘Bodies that Matter: Women and Women’s Studies in Europe’, Marina Lassenius et al, eds. Feminist Dialogues. Abo: Abo Akademi University Press.
Griffin, G. (2007) ‘Unknown Others: South Asian Audience and Its Audiences in Britain Today’, Contemporary Women’s Writing, 1/1/2: 118-134.
Griffin, G. (2007) ‘What Mode Marriage? Women’s Partner Choice in British Asian Cultural Representation’, Women: A Cultural Review, 18/1: 1-18.
Griffin, G. (2007) ‘Gagging: Gender, Performance and the Politics of Intervention’, Contemporary Theatre Review 17.4: 541-9.
Griffin, G. (2007) Entry on elder abuse. International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. Eds. M. Flood, J.K. Gardiner, B. Pease and K. Pringle. London: Routledge.
Griffin, G. (2006) Guest editor, special issue of NORA (Nordic Journal of Women’s Studies)
Griffin, G. (2006) ‘Balancing Agendas: Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe’, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 5/3 (2006): 229-41.
Griffin, G. (2006) ‘Gendered Cultures’, Mary Evans, Judith Lorber, and Kathy Davis, eds. Handbook of Gender and Women’s Studies. London: Sage. 73-91.
Griffin, G. (2006) ‘The Remains of the British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock’, Mary Luckhurst, ed., A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Griffin, G. (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.
Griffin, G. (2005) Research Methods for English Studies (ed. and contributor) Edinburgh UP.
Griffin, G. (2005) Doing Women’s Studies: Employment Opportunities, Personal Impacts and Social Consequences (ed. and contributor) London: ZED Books.
Griffin, G. (2005) ‘The Institutionalization of Women’s Studies in Europe: Findings from an EU-funded Research Project on Women’s Studies and Women’s Employment’, Eva Blimlinger and Therese Gerstenauer, eds. Women’s/Gender Studies: Against All Odds. Wien: Studienverlag.
Griffin, G. (2005) ‘The Impact of Women’s Studies Training on Women’s Employment in Europe: A Comparative Analysis’, in Valeria Maione, ed. Gender Equality in Higher Education, Milan: Franco Agneli. 164-73.
Griffin, G. (2004) Employment, Equal Opportunities and Women’s Studies: Women’s Experiences in Seven European Countries (ed. and contributor) Koenigstein: Ulrike Helmer Verlag.
Griffin, G. (2004) ‘Troubling Identities: Why Is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?’, Viv Gardner and Maggie Gale, eds. Women and Theatre: Identity and (Auto)biography. Manchester: Manchester UP. 153-77.
Griffin, G. (2004) ‘Exile and the Body’, W. Everett and P. Wagstaff, eds. Cultures of Exile: Images of Displacement, New York and London: Berghahn Books. 111-124.
Griffin, G. (2003) Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain. Cambride: Cambridge UP.
Griffin, G. (2003) ‘Constitutive Subjectivities: Contemporary Black and Asian Women Playwrights in Britain’, European Journal of Women’s Studies 10/4: 377-394.
Griffin, G. (2003) ‘(Other) Feminisms – European Women’s Studies’, Hecate 29/2: 50-62.
Griffin, G. (2003) ‘Humboldt, Mickey Mouse and Current European Research Programmes – or Where are the Women in All This?’, Kvinder kon forskning 12/2: 31-43.
Griffin, G. (2002) Who’s Who in Lesbian and Gay Writing. London: Routledge.
Griffin, G. (2002) Thinking Differently: A Reader in European Women's Studies (co-edited and contributor with Rosi Braidotti) London: ZED Books.
Griffin, G. (2002) Women’s Employment, Women’s Studies and Equal Opportunities 1945-2001: Reports from nine European Countries (ed. and contributor) University of Hull.
Griffin, G. (2002) ‘Was haben wir erreicht? Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem “Schicksal” von Women’s Studies im Vereinigten Koenigreich’, Feministische Studien 20/1 (May 2002): 70-86.
Griffin, G. (2002)'Troubling Identities, or Why Is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?', Anglo-Saxonica 2, 16/17: 93-113.
Griffin, G. (2002) ‘Women’s Employment, Equal Opportunities and Women’s Studies in Europe’, Rosi Braidotti et al, eds. The Making of European Women’s Studies vol. 4, University of Utrecht, pp. 187-198.
Griffin, G. (2002) ‘Co-option or Transformation? Women’s and Gender Studies Worldwide’, Heike Flessner and Lydia Potts, eds. Societies in Transition – Challenges to Women’s and Gender Studies. Opladen: Leske and Budrich. 13-32.
Griffin, G. (2001) ‘Kooptacja czy transformacja? Women’s i gender studies na swiecie’, Katedra 3: 9-28.
2000
Griffin, G. (2000) HIV/AIDS and Representation: Visibility Blue/s. Manchester: Manchester UP.
Griffin, G. (2000) ‘The Dispersal of the Lesbian, or Re-patriating the Lesbian in British Writing’, Journal of Lesbian Studies (Spring) 4/2.
Griffin, G. (2000) 'Race, Ethnicity, Migration and Gender in Europe: A Position Paper' The Making of European Women's Studies, vol. 2, pp. 103-116.
Consultancy
2008-9 Member: METRIS expert group on Emerging trends in the social Sciences and Humanities, European Commission.
Professional activities
Between 1999-2009 I was both co-founding editor and then managing editor of Feminist Theory ( London: Sage) an international, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal. I am also on the editorial board of Contemporary Women’s Writing (Oxford UP) and on Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (Routledge).
At present I am editor of the ‘Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities’ series published by Edinburgh University Press.
I am a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, and have acted as evaluator for large research grants, postgraduate applications, block grant applications, and research leave applications for the AHRC, as well as for the ESRC. I have done significant numbers of international assessments of research grants for bodies such as the European Commission and the Swiss National Science Foundation.