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1Name:  Dr. Catherine Gallagher
 Institution:  University of California, Berkeley
 Year Elected:  2020
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  402a
 Residency:  resident
 Living? :   Living
 Birth Date:  1945
   
 
Catherine Gallagher is Ida May and William J Eggers, Jr. Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979, where she has spent most of her career. As a consequence of Catherine Gallagher's theoretical work (she is one of the co-founders, expositors and leading practitioners of new historicism); her institutional contributions (she is one of the founding members of the important journal Representations and a long-time member of the School of Criticism and Theory); her commitment to issues of gender, class, and race in the literary canon; and her historically and philosophically informed readings of both canonical and non-canonical texts, Gallagher is one of the most influential literary critics of her generation. She has also been one of the most important teachers of the past four decades: she trained scores of graduate students; started new programs like that in human rights at Berkeley; edited important document collections; and taught in a variety of innovative undergraduate programs. Among the awards, prizes, and other distinctions Catherine Gallagher has won are a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988, the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association in 1994, and the Jacques Barzun Prize of the American Philosophical Society in 2018. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2002) and the American Academy in Berlin (2010). Her bibliography includes: The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832-67, 1985; (edited with T. Laqueur) The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century, 1987; Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820, 1994; (edited with S. Stern) Oroonoko, or, The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn, 1999 (with S. Greenblatt) Practicing New Historicism, 2000; The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel, 2006; Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction, 2018. Catherine Gallagher was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2020.
 
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