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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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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Born 24 February 1942 · Q240851
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2026· 3 entries
“had not identified himself as a Dalit.”
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Yahoo: Kenin Spivak: "Tucker And His Group Are Dangerous Antisemites"
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2025· 6 entries
Awarded Holberg International Memorial Prize (2025).
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The Telegraph: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak wins Norway prize, Mamata Banerjee congratulates
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The New Indian Express: Indian scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak awarded 2025 Holberg Prize
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Deccan Chronicle: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Wins 2025 Holberg Prize
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Spivak received the Holberg Prize
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Spivak received the Holberg Prize for "her groundbreaking work in the fields of literary theory and philosophy
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2024· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of Paris Nanterre University (2024).
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2022· 2 entries
Scroll: Watch: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on her project to have Bengali literature translated into English
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The Telegraph: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s homecoming project
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2021).
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2017· 1 entry
NDTV: Prof Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Inaugurates International Colloquium On Creative Teaching And Learning
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2016· 1 entry
Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award from the Modern Language Association in 2018
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Paris 8 University (2014).
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2013· 1 entry
Received the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award in India
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (2012).
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Received the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, while in 2021 she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
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Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy in 2012
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1999· 1 entry
Explores how major works of European metaphysics (e
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1997· 2 entries
Received a prize for translation into English from the Sahitya Akadami in India
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Her friend Lore Metzger, a survivor of Nazi Germany, left Spivak $10,000 in her will to help with the work of rural education
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1995).
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Doctor of Letters from University of Toronto in 2000
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1991· 1 entry
Joined the faculty at Columbia University as Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities; in 2007, she was made University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia
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1986· 1 entry
At the University of Pittsburgh, she became the first Mellon Professor of English
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1982· 1 entry
Was appointed as the Longstreet Professor in English and Comparative Literature at Emory University
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1978· 1 entry
Joined the University of Texas at Austin as professor of English and comparative literature, teaching there until 1982
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1974· 1 entry
And became a full professor and director of the Comparative Literature Program a year later
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1967· 1 entry
Spivak purchased De la grammatologie by Jacques Derrida, though she was unfamiliar with the author
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1961· 1 entry
Spivak joined the graduate program in English at Cornell University in the United States, travelling on money borrowed on a so-called "life mortgage"
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1959· 1 entry
Upon graduation from Presidency College, she secured full-time employment as an English tutor
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1942· 1 entry
Born 1942-02-24.
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