The Social Work of Narrative

"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. He has published in the fields of post-colonial literatures, secular/sacral relations in the modern world, missions in colonial space, African literatures in English and theatre studies. His many books include: A Double Exile, African and West Indian Literatures in English (1978), African Literatures in English-East and West (2000), he has co-authored The Empire Writes Back (1989) and co-edited The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (1995), Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies (1998), Mixed Messages: Materality, Textuality (2005), Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies (2003) and co-authored Indigenous Evangelists and Questions of Authority in the British Empire 1750-1940 (2015). Professor Philip Mead is Chair of Australian Literature, University of Western Australia, and Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, Harvard University (2015-16). Philip Mead's research is at the intersections of national and transnational literary studies, cultural history and theory, poetics, literary education, and digital humanities. He has published in the fields of literary history, Indigenous Studies, social memory, literary education, and postcolonial poetics. His books include Networked Language: Culture and History in Australian Poetry (2010), An Introduction to the Literature of Tasmania (2016), and Antipodal Shakespeare: Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916-2016 (with Gordon McMullan) (2016).