Listen to Sandra Gilbert!

Sandra M. Gilbert is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Davis, and the author of more than 20 books, including eight collections of poetry. Gilbert has taught at universities including Stanford and Princeton, and is recognized as one of the most accomplished feminist literary scholars and theorists of our time. In addition to her works of poetry, Gilbert has published a memoir, an anthology of elegies, and a critical study: Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions (W. W. Norton, 2011). Her most recent volume of poems, Aftermath, was published by W.W. Norton in 2011. She was awarded the Presidency of the Modern Language Association and as a result of her long-time collaboration with Susan Gubar, a professor of English at Indiana University, they were both named a “Ms. Woman of the Year” in USA Today’s “People Who Made a Difference.” She has received Guggenheim, Rockefeller, NEH, and Soros Foundation fellowships, and she has held residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and Bellagio. In 1990, she was (with Karl Shapiro) a co-recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s Charity Randall Award. More recently, she has won a Patterson Prize and an American Book Award for her poetry books Kissing the Bread and Ghost Volcano, respectively.