Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born February 24, 1942 in Calcutta, British Raj) is an Indian-born scholar, teacher and translator. She is University Professor at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of the school's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
Spivak is the author of a number of books, including Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography (1985), In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987), Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-Coloniality (1993), and A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (1999).
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