“The Tame from the Wild”

Michael R. Griffiths is a PhD candidate in the English Department at Rice University. Griffiths’s dissertation research focuses on the biopolitics of race, gender, and species in the settler colony and combines ethnographic and site specific research with readings of Australian Aboriginal cultural productions. An essay from this project is forthcoming in a collection titled Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature. Ed. Nathanael O'Reilly. He has also published in Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation and given conference presentations at venues including MLA, AAALS, and SCSECS.