Susan Gubar
American author and Professor Emerita
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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.
Susan D. Gubar | |
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| Born | November 30, 1944[1] |
| Occupations | Author, distinguished professor emerita |
| Notable work | The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) |
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[3] and the MLA Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement.[4]
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.[5]
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 Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, published in 1985 (ISBN 0393019403); its publication resulted in both of them being included among Ms.'s women of the year in 1986.[1]
Her book Judas: A Biography, was published in 2009 by W.W. Norton (ISBN 9780393064834). Her other writings include essays on the relationship between Judaism and feminism, and the role of poetry in Holocaust remembrance.[6]
In December 2009, Gubar retired from Indiana University at age 65, due to complications following a November 2008 diagnosis of advanced ovarian cancer.[1] The "wrenching story" of her subsequent medical treatment (in which she underwent a "debulking" surgery which included the removal of her appendix, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, and part of her intestines)[7] led her to write Memoir of a Debulked Woman (2012, ISBN 978-0-393-07325-6).[1] She continues her story as a blogger in "Living with Cancer" for The New York Times.[8] A chaired appointment at Indiana is now named for Gubar.
Gubar was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2011.[9]
In 2012, she and her longtime collaborator Sandra M. Gilbert were awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle.[10]
In 2020, she received the Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement from the Modern Languages Association.[11]
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 [12]