Susan gubar biography

American author and Professor Emerita

Susan D. Gubar (born November 30, 1944)^[2] is an American author and distinguished ProfessorEmerita 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 Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English, published in