born in 1942. University Professor and founder of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, New York, conducts research and teaches reading at the interfaces of globality, feminism, Marxism, and deconstruction on issues of identity and subalternity. Teaches elementary school and works for ecological agriculture among the rural landless in India. Her most recent book is »Readings« (2014).
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
India, USA, USA
Guest at the ILB: 2015
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, 1999
An Aesthetic Education in an Era of Globalization
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, 2012
Readings
Seagull Books
Kalkutta, 2014