Catherine Gallagher
Catherine Gallagher 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. She is married to Martin Jay, an Intellectual Historian in the History department at Berkeley.
She is a recipient of the 2010/2011 Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin.
In 2020 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.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.
