Susan Gubar

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.

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.

In December 2009, Gubar retired from Indiana University at age 65, due to complications following a November 2008 diagnosis of advanced ovarian cancer. led her to write Memoir of a Debulked Woman (2012, ). A chaired appointment at Indiana is now named for Gubar.

Gubar was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2011.

In 2012, she and her longtime collaborator Sandra M. Gilbert were awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle.

In 2020, she received the Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement from the Modern Languages Association.