Susan Gubar
Susan D. Gubar | |
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Born | [1] | November 30, 1944
Occupation(s) | Author, distinguished professor emerita |
Notable work | The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) |
Susan D. Gubar (born November 30, 1944)[2] is an American author and distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Indiana University.
She is best known for co-authoring the landmark feminist literary study The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (1979) with Sandra Gilbert. She has also written a trilogy on women's writing in the 20th century. Her honours include the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.
Education
Gubar received an BA from the City College of New York, an MA from the University of Michigan, and a PhD from the University of Iowa.[3]
Career
Gubar joined the faculty of Indiana University in 1973, at a time when there were three female professors among the 70 in its English department.[1]
Gubar and Gilbert edited the
Her book Judas: A Biography, was published in 2009 by W.W. Norton (
In December 2009, Gubar retired from Indiana University at age 65, due to complications following a November 2008 diagnosis of advanced
Gubar was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2011.[7]
In 2012, she and her longtime collaborator Sandra M. Gilbert were awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle.[8]
Bibliography
With Sandra M. Gilbert
- The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the 19th-Century Literary Imagination
- Shakespeare’s Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets
- A Guide to "The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English"
- The War of the Words, Volume I of No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century
- Sexchanges, Volume II of No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century
- Letters from the Front, Volume III of No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century
- Masterpiece Theatre: An Academic Melodrama
She also edited:
- Women Poets, Special Double Issue of Women's Studies
- The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Tradition in English
- The Female Imagination and the Modernist Aesthetic , also published as a Special Double Issue of Women’s Studies (Vol. 13, no. 1 & 2 (1986))
- MotherSongs: Poetry by, for, and about Mothers also with Diana O’Hehir
With others
Edited:
- For Adult Users Only: The Dilemma of Violent Pornography with Joan Hoff
- English Inside and Out: The Places of Literary Criticism, Papers from the 50th Meeting of the English Institute, with Jonathan Kamholtz [9]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Susan Gubar's Closing Chapters". The Chronicle of Higher Education. April 22, 2012. Retrieved April 23, 2012.
- ^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 & 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
- ^ "Susan Gubar". Susan Gubar faculty profile.
- ^ "Author: Gubar, Susan". RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies.
- ^ Wilson, Robert (22 April 2012). "A Feminist Professor's Closing Chapters". Retrieved 25 August 2014.
- ^ Gubar, Susan (October 24, 2013). "Living With Cancer: Brains on Chemo". The New York Times.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
- New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
- ^ "Susan Gubar". Indiana University: Jewish Studies Program.