Professor Gabriele Griffin, Professor of Gender Studies, University of York, UK. Her research interests include Women's Studies as a discipline, women and employment, race, ethnicity and diaspora, 20th century women's cultural production, feminist theory, and issues of bodies/sexualities. She has been the academic coordinator of the 5th Framework funded research project called EWSI: Employment and Women's Studies: The impact of Women's Studies Training on Women's Employment in Europe. (HPSE-CT-2001-00082).
She is currently setting up her new 6th Framework research, funded as a STREP, and entitled: Changing Knowlegde and Disciplinary Boundaries through integrative research methods in the social sciences and Humanities.
She is also currently editing a volume on Research Methods for English for Oxford University Press. Prof. Griffin is co-founding editor of the journal Feminist Theory (Sage 2000). Her publications include:

• Gender Issues in Elder Abuse (co-authored with L. Aitken; Sage 1996);
• Feminist Activism in the 1990s (ed.; Taylor & Francis 1995);
• Heavenly Love? Lesbian Images in 20th Century Women's Writing (Manchester UP 1993).