Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor at Columbia University.Among her many publications are
In Other Worlds
,A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
,Other Asias
,andAn Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization
.She is currently completing books on W.E.B.Du Bois and Antonio Gramsci’s prison correspondence with Tatiana and Giulia Schucht.She has been awarded the Kyoto Prize and the Padma Bhushan(a civil honor bestowed by the president of India),the Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award from the Modern Language Association of America(2018),and is Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.She holds honorary degrees from the University of Toronto,University of London,Oberlin College,Universitat Roveri I Virgili,Rabindra Bharati University,Universidad Nacional de San Martín,University of St.Andrews,Paris VIII,Presidency University,Yale University,University of Ghana-Legon,Universidad de Chile,and Babe?-Bolyai University.Her academic and non-academic work centers around humanities for social justice,and ranges from law to art curating.She is a hands-on activist engaged with rural education,ecological agriculture,and subalternity in development.佳亞特里·斯皮瓦克,哥倫比亞大學教授,主要著作包括《在另一個世界:文化政治學論文集》《后殖民理性批判》《別樣的亞洲》和《全球化時代的美學教育》。她目前正在撰寫有關W.E.B.杜波依斯、安東尼奧·葛蘭西與塔吉婭娜、朱莉婭·舒赫特姐妹獄中對談的論著。斯皮瓦克教授曾被授予“日本京都獎”、由印度總統(tǒng)頒發(fā)的公民榮譽獎“蓮花裝勛章”、2018年度美國現代語言學會終身學術成就獎,以及法蘭西藝術與文學騎士勛章,擁有多倫多大學、倫敦大學、歐柏林學院、巴黎第八大學、加爾各答總統(tǒng)大學及耶魯大學等多座高等學府的榮譽學位。呼吁建立為社會正義服務的人文學科為斯皮瓦克教授在高校和全球戰(zhàn)線的學術與非學術使命所在。她不僅在學術研究上涉獵廣泛,兼涉從法律到藝術策展等眾多領域,還是一名為農村教育、生態(tài)農業(yè)和發(fā)展中的底層群體積極奔走的活動家。