Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A New Look at an Old Text: De la grammatologie in the Eyes of its Translator, 40 Years Later
Thursday 26 February, 2015
6 - 8pm, $0
New School, Vera List Center
6 East 16 Street, Room D1103
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University), will give a lecture entitled “A New Look at an Old Text: De la grammatologie in the Eyes of its Translator, 40 Years Later”
Spivak is a University Professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. B.A. English (First Class Honors), Presidency College, Calcutta, 1959. Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Cornell University, 1967. D. Litt, University of Toronto, 1999; D. Litt, University of London, 2003; D. Hum, Oberlin College, 2008; D. Honoris Causa, Universitat Roveri I Virgili, 2011; D. Honoris Causa, Rabindra Bharati, 2012; Kyoto Prize in Thought and Ethics, 2012; Padma Bhushan 2013; D.Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, 2013; D. Litt, University of St. Andrews, 2014; D. Honoris Causa, Paris VIII (2014), Presidency University (forthcoming).
Her fields include: 19th- and 20th-century literature; politics of culture; feminism; Marx, Derrida; globalization. Her published books include: In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987; Routledge Classic 2002), Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-Coloniality (1993; 2d ed forthcoming), Outside in the Teaching Machine (1993; Routledge classic 2003), The Spivak Reader (1995), Imperatives to Re-Imagine the Planet / Imperative zur Neuerfindung des Planeten (ed. Willi Goetschel, 1999; 2d ed. forthcoming), Chotti Munda and His Arrow (translation with critical introduction of a novel by Mahasweta Devi, 2002), Death of a Discipline (2003), Other Asias (2005), An Aesthetic Education in the Age of Globalization (2012), Readings (2014), and Du Bois and the General Strike (forthcoming).
Sponsored by The New School for Social Research.