Catherine Gallagher

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Catherine Gallagher (born February 16, 1945) is an American historicist literary critic, and Victorianist, and is Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Berkeley.{{cite web|url=http://english.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/depts/english/directory-faculty.cgi?hiMode=detail&record=73|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051110095135/http://english.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/depts/english/directory-faculty.cgi?hiMode=detail&record=73|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 November 2005|title=Catherine Gallagher, Professor : CV|accessdate=8 January 2019}} Gallagher is the author of Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820 (1994), which documented significant literary works that had previously been overlooked.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. Gallagher is also the author of The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel (2005) and Telling It Like It Wasn't: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction (2018). She is married to Martin Jay, a faculty member of the History department at UC Berkeley.{{cite news |last=Rimer |first=Sara |date=September 30, 2003 |title=Universities Tighten Rules on Faculty–Student Relationships |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/30/national/universities-tighten-rules-on-facultystudent-relationships.html |url-access=limited |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=May 19, 2019}} She gave the 1996 Master-Mind Lecture.{{cite web|title=Master-Mind Lectures|website=The British Academy|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectures/listings/master-mind-lectures/}}{{cite journal|author=Gallagher, Catherine|title=George Eliot: Immanent Victorian|journal=Proceedings of the British Academy|year=1997|volume=94|pages=157–172|url=http://publications.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/pubs/proc/files/94p157.pdf}}

She is a recipient of the Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin (2011) and the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History (2018). In 2020 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.{{cite web | url=https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2020 | title=The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2020 }}

Selected works

The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction. Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832-67. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985
[https://books.google.com/books?id=pq4Vtq7eRrMC 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.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=r7TO8MQ8xY0C Nobody's Story. The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820.] Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn. Bedford Cultural Edition. Ed., intros, and headnotes. Bedford Books, 1999. With Simon Stern.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=8atGSHPGHZEC Practicing New Historicism.] With Stephen Greenblatt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
The Body Economic : Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gzzIp50gAWIC 2008 pbk edition]
[https://books.google.com/books?id=J19CDwAAQBAJ Telling It Like It Wasn't: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction.] Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018.