Susan D. Gubar (born November 30, 1944)[2] is an American author and distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Indiana University.
[3] 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.
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] The "wrenching story" of her subsequent medical treatment (in which she underwent a "debulking" surgery which included the removal of her appendix, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, and part of her intestines)[5] led her to write Memoir of a Debulked Woman (2012, ISBN 978-0-393-07325-6).