Susan D. Gubar

Distinguished Professor

Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington

Susan Gubar, a Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies has taught at Indiana University for more than twenty years. Along with Sandra M. Gilbert, she published The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the 19th-Century Literary Imagination in 1979, a runner-up for both The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Six years later, in 1985, the collaborators received a Ms. Woman of the Year award for their compilation of the Norton Anthology of Literature of Women, a work that appeared in a revised second edition in 1996. Gilbert and Gubar also followed up The Madwoman with a critical trilogy entitled No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century: The War of the Words (1988), Sexchanges (1989), and Letters from the Front (1994) use feminist criticism to understand the achievements of British and American literary women in modern times. Gilbert and Gubar's most recent jointly-authored enterprises consist of a collection of poetry for and about mothers, MotherSongs (Norton, 1995), and a satire on the current state of literacy and cultural literacy, Masterpiece Theatre: An Academic Melodrama (Rutgers, 1995).

In 2006, Susan Gubar published Rooms of Our Own, which won an Honorable Mention award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights and in 2007, with Sandra M. Gilbert, she published a third edition of the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women as well as a Norton Reader of Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism. Her cultural biography of Judas, the twelfth apostle, will be published by W. W. Norton in 2008.

The recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, Susan Gubar published a book on the centrality of cross-racial masquerade in American fiction, photography, painting, and film: Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture (Oxford, 1997). She recently put together a collection of her essays in a book, Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century, which was published by Columbia University Press in 2000. She spent a year as a Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Human Values to complete Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew, which was published by Indiana University in 2003. The recipient in 2003 of The Faculty Mentor Award from IU's Graduate Professional Student Organization, Susan Gubar continues to work with undergraduate and graduate students interested in critical race and gender issues in twentieth-century British and North American cultural contexts.

Office: (812) 855-3634; Fax: (812) 855-9535; E-mail: gubar@indiana.edu