Susan D. Gubar

With collaborator, Sandra Gilbert, pioneered the modern study of literature in English by and about women. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (1979) and the three-volume No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century (1988-1994), established the model for feminist literary criticism. The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women (1985) greatly enlarged the canon of works deemed worthy of study, including many that were long out of print. The anthology -now in its third revised edition- is a standard text for classes in English, American Studies, and Women's Studies nationwide. Single-author works demonstrate wide-ranging interests, from studies of cross-race impersonations and Holocaust poetry, to a cultural biography of Judas and a memoir about survival from ovarian cancer. The latter book, published in 2012, has led to a twice-monthly column for The New York Times on Living with Cancer. Member, the American Philosophical Society (2011) and recipient, the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award (2013).