Jane Gallop

Jane Anne Gallop (born May 4, 1952) is an American professor who since 1992 has served as Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she has taught since 1990. 2Education Gallop earned a B.A. at Cornell University in 1972, and a Ph.D in French literature in 1976 at the same institution, as part of the Ford Foundation Six-Year Ph.D. Program. She taught in the French Department at Miami University in Ohio. She was Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Humanities at Rice University, where she founded the Women's Studies program, as well as serving 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. 2Career She is the author of nine books, and nearly a hundred articles. In addition to psychoanalysis, especially Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory (particularly in the context of the American and French feminist responses to it), she has written on topics which include psychoanalysis and feminism; the Marquis de Sade; feminist literary criticism; pedagogy; sexual harassment; photography; and queer theory. She claims that her writing can be understood, "as the consistent application of a close reading method to theoretical texts." She has taught this method of close reading theory to her students for the past 35 years. 2Writings Gallop's most controversial book addresses the issue of sexual harassment. In Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment she documents her experiences being accused of sexual harassment at her workplace, and formulates a feminist response to the emotional episod