American author and Professor Emerita
Susan D. Gubar
Born (1944-11-30 ) November 30, 1944 (age 80) [ 1] Occupation(s) Author, distinguished professor emerita Notable work The Madwoman in the Attic
Susan D. Gubar (born November 30, 1944)[ 2] 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 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 Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English 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.[ 4]
In December 2009, Gubar retired from Indiana University at age 65, due to complications following a November 2008 diagnosis of advanced ovarian cancer .[ 1] [ 5] Memoir of a Debulked Woman (2012, ISBN 978-0-393-07325-6 ).[ 1] The New York Times [ 6]
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 HoffEnglish 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 .^ John Williams (January 14, 2012). "National Book Critics Circle Names 2012 Award Finalists" . New York Times . Retrieved January 15, 2013 . ^ "Susan Gubar" . Indiana University: Jewish Studies Program .
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