Terry Castle (born October 18, 1953) is an American literary scholar.
Once described by Susan Sontag as "the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today," she has published eight books, including the anthology The Literature of Lesbianism, which won the Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award.
[1] She writes on topics ranging from 18th-century ghost stories to World War I-era lesbianism to the so-called "photographic fringe."
The daughter of British parents, Castle was born in San Diego and lived in England and Southern California as a child.
[2] A longtime resident of San Francisco, Castle is currently Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University.