Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Calcutta, 1942) is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University (New York) and an honorary doctorate from the universities of Toronto, London and Oberlin College. She is the author, among other works, of the translation and critical introduction of "De la grammatologie" by Jacques Derrida (1976); "Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Post-Coloniality" (1993), "In Other Worlds" (1987) or "Outside in the Teaching Machine" (1993). In Akal he has published his great work Critique of post-colonial reason (2010) and "Other Asias" (2011). His essay "Can the Subaltern speak?" (1988) has already become a classic and fundamental text of postcolonial studies. He has also made numerous translations from Bengali to English, among which are the books of Mahasweta Devi, Imaginary Maps (1994); Breast Stories (1997), Old Women (1999) and Chotti Munda and His Arrow (2002); as well as the translation of the eighteenth-century Bengali mystic Ramproshad Sen, Song for Kali