Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Her books are Myself Must I Remake (1974), Of Grammatology (1976; translation with critical introduction of Derrida’s De la grammatologie), In Other Worlds (1987), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993), A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999), Other Asias (2003), An Aesthetic Education (2013), and Readings (2014). She has won the Kyoto Prize (2012) and the Padma Bhushan (2013). She holds fifteen honorary doctorates. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” has become a worldwide classic. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor at Columbia University. She has written many books and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Toronto, London, Rovira I Virgili, Rabindra Bharati, San Martín, St. Andrews, Chile, Vincennes Saint-Denis, Yale, Ghana-Legon; Presidency University, University of Paris-Nanterre, Babes-Bolyai University, International Center for Latin American Studies in Inclusive Education, and Oberlin College. Humanities for social justice is her obsession.