Gareth Griffiths FAHA (born 1943) is a Welsh-born academic, Emeritus Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia.
From 2002 to 2005 he chaired the English Department at SUNY Albany in the United States.
Griffiths's work has primarily focused on postcolonial literature and theory, a topic on which he has been an influential contributor.
He has published on the literatures of diverse third world and postcolonial spaces but his work has most significantly dealt with East and West Africa.
His current research is on ideas of the secular and the sacred in the postcolonial world and on US/African relations in the 19th century.