Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, New York. B.A.University of Calcutta (1959); M.A. (1962) & Ph.D (1967), Cornell University. She has also taught at Brown, Texas-Austin, UC-Santa Cruz, Université Paul Valéry, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Stanford, University of British Columbia, Goethe Universität in Frankfurt, Riyadh University, Emory, and the University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong). Before arriving at Columbia, she was Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She has been a Fellow of the National Humanities Institute, the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan, the Humanities Research Center at the Australian National University, the Center for the Study of Social Sciences (Calcutta), the Davis Center for Historical Studies (Princeton), the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio). She has been a Kent Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. Among her many Distinguished Faculty Fellowships is the Tagore Fellowship at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (India). She has been a member of the Subaltern Studies Collective. Among her publications are Of Grammatology (translation with critical introduction of Jacques Derrida's De la grammmatologie), Imaginary Maps, Breast Stories, Old Women (translations with critical material of the fiction of Mahasweta Devi), In Other Worlds, The Post-Colonial Critic, Outside in the Teaching Machine, and A Critique of Postcolonial Reason. Across the disciplines, in professional schools, outside the academy, and in activist circles, Professor Spivak is invited to deliver keynote addresses. Spivak's work has been translated into all the major European and Asian languages. She also publishes and lectures in her native Bengali. Among her numerous current projects is translating for the definitive edition of the Selected Works of Mahasweta Devi. She is the recipient of the Translation Prize (1997) from the Sahitya Akademi (the National Academy of Literature) in India. In June 2000, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Toronto. Professor Spivak has been elected to the Advisory Board of the English Institute, to the Executive Board of the International Center for Writing and Translation, and to the Analytical Circle on the newly-established ambitious British think tank, Zamyn. In Spring 2001, she was the first Y. K. Pao Distinguished Visiting Professor in Cultural Studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.