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Susan Gubar
View on WikipediaSusan D. Gubar (born November 30, 1944)[2] is an American author and distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Indiana University.
Key Information
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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]With Sandra M. Gilbert
[edit]- 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
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2026-02-19.
- ^ "MLA Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2026-02-19.
- ^ "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.
- ^ John Williams (January 14, 2012). "National Book Critics Circle Names 2012 Award Finalists". New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
- ^ . MLA Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Grants-and-Awards/Winners-of-MLA-Prizes/MLA-Award-for-Lifetime-Scholarly-Achievement. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
- ^ "Susan Gubar". Indiana University: Jewish Studies Program.
