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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Indian philosopher, scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Spivak in 2012
Born	(1942-02-24) 24 February 1942 (age 82) Calcutta, Bengal Province, British India
Alma mater	University of Calcutta (MA) Cornell University (PhD)
Spouses	Talbot Spivak (m. 1964⁠–⁠1977)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy, postcolonialism, deconstruction
Main interests	Literary criticism, feminism, Marxism, postcolonialism
Notable ideas	Strategic essentialism, the Subaltern, the Other

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (IPA: gäĕòt̪.t̪ri t͡ʃɔk.krò.bòr.(t̪)t̪i) FBA (born 24 February 1942) is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic.^[1] She is a University Professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.^[2]

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Introduction

While she is best known as a postcolonial theorist, Gayatri Spivak describes herself as a “para-disciplinary, ethical philosopher”– though her early career would have included “applied deconstruction.” Her reputation was first made for her translation and preface to Derrida’s Of Grammatology (1976) and she has since applied deconstructive strategies to various theoretical engagements and textual analyses including feminism, Marxism, literary criticism and postcolonialism.

My position is generally a reactive one. I am viewed by Marxists as too codic, by feminists as too male-identified, by indigenous theorists as too committed to Western Theory. I am uneasily pleased about this. (Post-Colonial Critic)

Despite her outsider status — or partly, perhaps, because of it — Spivak is widely cited in a range of disciplines. Her work is nearly evenly split between dense theoretical writing peppered with flashes of compelling insight, and published interviews in which she wrestles with many of the same issues in a more personable and immediate manner. What Edward Said

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Gayatri Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Professor at The European Graduate School / EGS

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (b. 1942 in Calcutta, India) is University Professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding member of Columbia’s Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.

A proponent of a “practical deconstructivist–feminist-Marxist position” (as developed in In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics, 1987) Spivak gained international recognition with her translation and extended introduction of Jacques Derrida’s De la grammatologie (Of Grammatology, 1976).

Spivak received a BA in English from Presidency College, Calcutta (1959), an MA in English (1962) and a PhD (1967) in Comparative Literature from Cornell University (1967). Her dissertation on W.B. Yeats was supervised by Paul de Man and a revised version was published as Myself Must I Remake: The Life and Poetry of W.B. Yeats (1974).

In 1965, Spivak was appointed Assistant Professor in English at the University of Iowa. There, she founded