Catherine Gallagher

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Catherine Gallagher
Catherine Gallagher (born 1945) in the conversation 150 Years of Women at Berkeley History Project.png
In an online discussion in 2020
Born (1945-02-16) February 16, 1945 (age 80)
Occupation(s)Literary critic, professor
Employer University of California, Berkeley
Spouse Martin Jay (m. c.1973)

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. [1]

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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. [2] 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. [3] She gave the 1996 Master-Mind Lecture. [4] [5] 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. [6]

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  1. "Catherine Gallagher, Professor : CV". Archived from the original on November 10, 2005. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
  2. 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.
  3. Rimer, Sara (September 30, 2003). "Universities Tighten Rules on Faculty–Student Relationships" . The New York Times. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  4. "Master-Mind Lectures". The British Academy.
  5. Gallagher, Catherine (1997). "George Eliot: Immanent Victorian" (PDF). Proceedings of the British Academy. 94: 157–172.
  6. "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2020".