Catherine Gallagher

Catherine Gallagher (born 16 February 1945) is an American historicist literary critic and Victorianist, and is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include The Body Economic : Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel (2005). She is married to Martin Jay, an Intellectual Historian in the History department at Berkeley.[1] She is a recipient of the 2010/2011 Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin.

  • Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History (2018)

In 2020 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[2]

Selected works
  • The Body Economic : Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
  • Practicing New Historicism. With Stephen Greenblatt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
  • Nobody's Story. The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
  • The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction. Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832-67. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985
  • Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn. Bedford Cultural Edition. Ed., intros, and headnotes. Bedford Books, 1999. With Simon Stern.
  • The Making of the Modern Body. Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. and intro. with Thomas Laqueur. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

See also

References
  1. Rimer, Sara (September 30, 2003). "Universities Tighten Rules on Faculty–Student Relationships". The New York Times. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  2. https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2020
  3. "Catherine Gallagher, Professor : CV". Archived from the original on 10 November 2005. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  4. Lennard J. Davis. "Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace 1670-1820 (review)." Eighteenth-Century Studies 29.4 (1996): 443-445. Project MUSE. Web. 8 Nov. 2015.
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