Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty

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SPIVAK, Gayatri Chakravorty

SPIVAK, Gayatri Chakravorty. Indian, b. 1942. Genres: Young adult nonfiction, Essays. Career: Critic and educator. Has taught English and comparative literature at several universities, including University of Iowa and University of Texas; served as Longstreet Professor of English, Emory University; and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh; Columbia University, NYC, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, 1991-. Publications: NONFICTION: Myself Must I Remake: The Life and Poetry of W.B. Yeats, 1974; In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics, 1987; (ed. with R. Guha) Selected Subaltern Studies, 1988; The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues, 1990; Outside in the Teaching Machine, 1993; The Spivak Reader, 1995; A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present, 1999. Contributor to anthologies. Contributor to journals. TRANSLATOR: Derrida, J., Of Grammatology, 1976; Devi, M., Imaginary Maps, 1995; Breast Stories, 1997; Old Woman, 1999; Chotti Munda and His Arrow, 2002. Address: Department of English, Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, U.S.A.