Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic · India · Academics · Born 1942 · age 84
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Something wrong?Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary theorist and feminist critic. She is a professor at Columbia University and a founding member of Columbia's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
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2025Holberg International Memorial PrizeAward2021Corresponding Fellow of the British AcademyAward2014Honorary Doctor of Paris 8 UniversityAward2012Kyoto Prize in Arts and PhilosophyAward1995Guggenheim FellowshipAward1991“I am at the moment a Fellow in the History department at a famous US University.”In their wordsChakravorty-Spivak, 1991,quoted in Chakrabarti, D. K., 1997. Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past. New Delhi:1942Born24 February 1942
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I am at the moment a Fellow in the History department at a famous US University.
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Country
India
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
living
Dates
Born 1942 · age 84
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Martha NussbaumBoth received Holberg International Memorial Prize
Manuel CastellsBoth received Holberg International Memorial Prize
Bruno LatourBoth received Holberg International Memorial Prize
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