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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
57
Citations
37406
World Ranking
1700
National Ranking
815

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans multiple subfields including language and linguistics, literature and literary theory, communication, religious studies, and education. The main topics covered by their work include religion, theology, and education; linguistic education and pedagogy; global education and multiculturalism; South Asian studies and conflicts; postcolonial and cultural literary studies; ecocriticism and environmental literature; and anthropological studies and insights.

Spivak has authored several recent papers published in diverse academic venues. These include:

  • "Epistemic daring: an interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak" (2022) in Postcolonial Studies
  • "How the Heritage of Postcolonial Studies Thinks Colonialism Today" (2021) in The Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
  • "Teaching for a Broken World" (2024) in Anglica An International Journal of English Studies
  • "Humanities Beyond the Disciplines: Imaginative Activism" (2025) in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
  • "The Native in Comparative Literature" (2020) in Comparative Literature

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Spivak include Gianmaria Colpani, Jamila M.H. Mascat, Ellen Rooney, Soledad Tuñón, and María Elena Pérez Bustillo. The scholar has contributed regularly to journals such as the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, Future Anterior Journal of Historic Preservation History Theory and Criticism, Postcolonial Studies, The Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis (Memorial University of Newfoundland), and Anglica An International Journal of English Studies.

Spivak has also published books, notably with Columbia University Press. One example is the book "Death of a Discipline" released in 2023.

Their academic career includes recognition such as being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1995.

Best Publications

  • Can the Subaltern Speak

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • In other worlds: Essays in cultural politics

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • Outside in the Teaching Machine

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • The Post-Colonial Critic : Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak;Sarah Harasym

  • The Rani of Sirmur: An Essay in Reading the Archives

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • Death of a discipline

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • Selected Subaltern studies

    Ranajit Guha;Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • Can the subaltern speak? : reflections on the history of an idea

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak;Rosalind C. Morris

  • SUBALTERN STUDIES: DECONSTRUCTING HISTORIOGRAPHY

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures

    Martha Gever;Cornel West;Trinh T. Minh-Ha;Michele Wallace

  • The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayati Chakravorty Spivak

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak;Donna Landry;Gerald M. MacLean

  • The post-colonial critic

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak;Sarah Harasym

  • PUEDE HABLAR EL SUBALTERNO

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • Forum: Conference Debates

    Robert L. Caserio;Tim Dean;Lee Edelman;Judith Halberstam

  • Pode o subalterno falar

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging

    Judith P. Butler;Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • In other worlds

    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • Selected Subaltern Studies.

    Richard G. Fox;Ranajit Guha;Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • Transnational Illiteracy@@@A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present

    David Huddart;Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Frequent Co-Authors

Judith Butler
Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida École Normale Supérieure
Arjun Appadurai
Arjun Appadurai New York University
Edward W. Said
Edward W. Said Columbia University
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek University of Ljubljana
Talal Asad
Talal Asad City University of New York
Karl Marx
Karl Marx Independent Scientist / Consultant, UK
David Arnold
David Arnold University of Warwick
bell hooks
bell hooks Berea College
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker Harvard University

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