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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, New York

Selected Publications: Translation of and introduction to Derrida's Of Grammatology (Baltimore: John's Hopkins, 1976). "Displacement and the Discourse of Woman" in Mark Krupnik, ed. Displacement: Derrida and After. (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1983) p.169-95. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (London: Methuen, 1987) "Can the Subaltern Speak?" in Cary Nelson and Larry Grossberg, eds. Marxism and the interpretation of Culture. (Chicago: Uni of Illinois Press, 1988) p.271-313. Selected subaltern Studies. Ed. with Ranajit Guha (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988). The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues. ed. Sarah Harasym. (London: Routledge, 1990),Outside In the Teaching Machine, London: Routledge, 1993),The Spivak Reader. Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, eds. (New York and London: Routledge, 1996) [this includes an extensive list of publications, including many interviews]. She has also translated Mahasweta Devi's works from Bengali to English, which have been published in various books and journals.

Books:
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present, Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1999; Calcutta: Seagull Press, 1999; translated into Japanese; chapter on History translated into Spanish; excerpts translated into Spanish in Asparkia: Investigacio Feminista 13 (2002), p. 207-214; translated into Portuguese (forthcoming); translated into Serbian (Belgrade Circle NGO, forthcoming in July 2003). Song for Kali: A Cycle (translation with introduction of Ramproshad Sen, 18th-century Bengali poet), Calcutta: Seagull, 2000.

Articles:
"Feminism and Critical Theory," Women's Studies International Quarterly, 1 (1978), p. 241-246. "Explanation and Culture: Marginalia," Humanities in Society, 2.3 (Summer 1979), p. 201-221; reprinted in Russell Ferguson et al, eds. Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990), p. 377-393. "Poststructuralism, Marginality, Postcoloniality and Value," in Peter Collier and Helga Geyer-Ryan, eds. Literary Theory Today (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990), p. 219-244; reprinted in Sociocriticism, 10 (1989), p. 43-81; reprinted in Padmini Mongia, ed. Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader (New York: Arnold Press, 1996), p. 198-364; reprinted in Diana Brydon, ed. Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts (New York: Routledge, 2000), p. 57-84. "Resident Alien," David Theo Goldberg and Ato Quayson, eds. Relocating Postcolonialism (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), p. 46-65. One of her forthcoming projects: "Righting Wrongs," Nicholas Owen, ed. Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2001 (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003), p. 168-227; forthcoming in boundary 2.

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