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'''Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak''' is a vociferous literary critic who was named a [[University Professor]] in March [[2007]]. She is also a founder of the [[Institute for Comparative Literature and Society]], a participant in elementary and intermediate [[Chinese]] classes, and an occasional instructor, on leave in Spring [[2008]].

She is a noted expert and translator of the ideas of [[:w:Jacques_Derrida|Jacques Derrida]], and is known for helping found the discipline of [[postcolonialism]] altogether, particularly the concept of the [[:w:Subaltern_(postcolonialism)|subaltern]].<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZHH4ALRFHw</ref> She has also been name-checked in a song by electro-punk band Le Tigre. 

== Criticism ==

Some students have found Spivak's methods of instruction arbitrary, capricious, and vain. One attempt to team-teach a course with [[Hamid Dabashi]] led to legendarily disastrous results.<ref>http://www.culpa.info/?root=csearch&process=browse&target=INTRO%2520TO%2520COMP%2520LIT%2520%26%2520SOCIETY%2520Call%2520Number%252048458%2520</ref>

Her scholarship has been criticized for using "unreadable jargon" and forcing a false dichotomy between "white, Western, imperialist males" and "designated, politically correct victims" on her opponents to bludgeon them into submission. <ref>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Summer2007/Letters.html</ref>

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== External links ==
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccls/fac-bios/spivak/faculty.html Gayatri C. Spivak - Faculty Profile], Comparative Literature and Society department
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/media/07/spivak/index.html Press release announcing Gayatri Spivak's appointment as University Professor]

[[Category:University Professors|Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty]]
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[[Category:Postcolonialists|Spivak]]