Born: 1952.

Education: Cornell University, BA, 1972; PhD (French literature), 1976.

Gallop taught in the French Department at Miami University in Ohio; was Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Humanities at Rice University, where she founded the Women's Studies program and served as chair of the Department of French and Italian. She has also taught or served as a visiting professor at Gettysburg College, Emory University, the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University, and the Chicago Psychoanalytic Center. She is Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she has taught since 1990. While the topics of her work vary, her writing can be understood as the consistent application of a close reading method to theoretical texts.

Publications

Intersections: A Reading of Sade with Bataille, Blanchot, and Klossowski (1981), The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis (1982), Reading Lacan (1985), Thinking through the Body (1988), Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory (1991), Pedagogy: The Question of Impersonation (ed.) (1995), Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment (1997), Anecdotal Theory (2002), Living with His Camera (2003), The Deaths of the Author: Writing and Reading in Time (2011), and Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus (2019). Her influential articles include “The Critics’ Exchange,” MLN (1974); “The Ghost of Lacan, the Trace of Language,” diacritics (1975); “The Ladies’ Man,” diacritics (1976); “The Seduction of an Analogy,” diacritics (1979); “Psychoanalysis in France,” Women and Literature (1979); “Impertinent Questions: Irigaray, Lacan, Sade,” Sub-stance (1980); “Sade, Mothers, and Other Women,” Enclitic (1980); “Reading Friends’ Corpses,” MLN (1980); “Of Phallic Proportions: Lacanian Conceit,” Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought (1981); “The Immoral Teachers,” Yale French Studies (1982); “The Difference Within,” Critical Inquiry (1982); “Lacan's ‘Mirror Stage’: Where to Begin?,” Sub-stance (1983); “Quand nos levres s’ecrivent: Irigaray's Body Politic,” Romanic Review (1983); “Beyond the Jouissance Principle,” Representations (1984); “Why Does Freud Giggle When the Women Leave the Room?,” Hecate (1984); “Psychoanalytic Criticism: Some Intimate Questions,” Art in America (1984); “Annie Leclerc Writing a Letter with Vermeer,” October (1985); “Reading the Mother Tongue,” Critical Inquiry (1986); “The Problem of Definition,” Genre (1987); “Heroic Images: Feminist Criticism, 1972,” American Literary History (1989);