Winthrop Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. Has also taught at Macquarie University in Sydney and in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, chairing the English Department at SUNY Albany from 2002-2006. Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, previously held positions as Head of the Theater Studies Council of Australia and Western Australian theatre Rreviewer for the Australian Newspaper. Griffiths was born in Wales in 1943, educated at Cyfarthfa Grammar School and, apart from the period as Chair at SUNY Albany, has been based in Australia since 1973