Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is University Professor at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.

Spivak was born Gayatri Chakravorty in Calcutta, India, to Pares Chandra and Sivani Chakravorty. Spivaks great grandfather Pratap Chandra Majumdar had been Sri Ramakrishnas doctor. Her father Paresh Chandra Chakrabarti was initiated by Sri Sarada Devi, and her mother Sivani Chakrabarti, by Swami Shivananda. After completing her secondary education at St. Johns Diocesan Girls Higher Secondary School, Spivak attended Presidency College, Kolkata under the University of Calcutta, from which she graduated in 1959. Spivak attended Cornell University, where she completed her MA in English and continued to pursue her PhD in comparative literature while also teaching at the University of Iowa. Her dissertation, advised by Paul de Man, was on W.B. Yeats and titled Myself Must I Remake The Life and Poetry of W.B. Yeats.

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