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] 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.

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