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'''Gayatri Spivak''' is a professor and director of the [[Institute for Comparative Literature and Society]] at [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University].<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/fac_profiles.htm#gs Biography]</ref> | '''Gayatri Spivak''' is a professor and director of the [[Institute for Comparative Literature and Society]] at [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University].<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/fac_profiles.htm#gs Biography]</ref> | ||
| + | Sheis best known as a post colonial theorist but she describes herself as “para-disciplinary, ethical philosopher.” She has applied deconstructive strategies to various theoretical engagements and textual analyses: from Feminism, Marxism, and Literary Criticism to, most recently, Postcolonialism. Spivak has published numerous books and interviews including In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics and Death of a Discipline.<ref>http://www.ydsusa.org/news/a-real-change-for-a-change</ref> | ||
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Spivak will be speaking at the [[Young Democratic Socialists National Conference]] in 2010.<ref>[http://www.ydsusa.org/news/a-real-change-for-a-change YDS National Conference information]</ref> | Spivak will be speaking at the [[Young Democratic Socialists National Conference]] in 2010.<ref>[http://www.ydsusa.org/news/a-real-change-for-a-change YDS National Conference information]</ref> | ||
Revision as of 01:11, 31 March 2010
Gayatri Spivak is a professor and director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.[1]
Sheis best known as a post colonial theorist but she describes herself as “para-disciplinary, ethical philosopher.” She has applied deconstructive strategies to various theoretical engagements and textual analyses: from Feminism, Marxism, and Literary Criticism to, most recently, Postcolonialism. Spivak has published numerous books and interviews including In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics and Death of a Discipline.[2]
YDS conference
Spivak will be speaking at the Young Democratic Socialists National Conference in 2010.[3]