Catherine Gallagher is the Eggers Professor of English Literature and has taught in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1980. Her teaching and research focus on the British novel and cultural history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She has received NEH, ACLS, and Guggenheim fellowships and has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Humanities Center, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the American Academy in Berlin. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her books include The Industrial Reformation of English Fiction: Social Discourse and Narrative Form, 1832-67 (1985); Nobody’s Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Literary Marketplace (1994); Practicing New Historicism (2000, with Stephen Greenblatt); and The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel (2006).