Sandra Gilbert

Who is Sandra Gilbert?

Sandra M. Gilbert, Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Davis, is an influential literary critic and poet who has published widely in the fields of feminist literary criticism, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic criticism. She is perhaps best known for her collaborative critical work with Susan Gubar, with whom she co-authored, among other works, The Madwoman in the Attic, a landmark in 1970s American feminism. Madwoman in the Attic is widely recognized as a text central to second-wave feminism.

She lives in Berkeley, California and, until 2008, in Paris, France. Her husband, Elliot L. Gilbert, was Chair of the Department of English at University of California, Davis, until his death in 1991. She also had a long-term relationship with David Gale, renowned mathematician at University of California, Berkeley, until his death in 2008. She is the mother of three and grandmother of four. Her current partner is Albert Magid, the founder of Aldon Computer Group, Emeryville, CA.