Sandra Gilbert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sandra Gilbert

American academic

Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1936

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: writer, poet, professor, journalist, literary critic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Sandra M.
Gilbert (born December 27, 1936) is an American literary critic and poet who has published in the fields of feminist literary criticism, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic criticism.
She is best known for her collaborative critical work with Susan Gubar, with whom she co-authored, among other works, The Madwoman in the Attic (1979).
Madwoman in the Attic is widely recognized as a text central to second-wave feminism.
She is Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Davis.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, mathematician at University of California, Berkeley, until his death in 2008.