Gayatri Chakravorty Spivakis university professor in the humanities at Columbia University and the author of many books, including The Post-Colonial Critic, Nationalism and the Imagination and, with Judith Butler, Who Sings the Nation-State?, the last two also published by Seagull Books.
Alice Attie is an artist and a writer. Her book,�Harlem on the Verge, documenting the transformations of Harlem, New York, was published in 2001.