Alexander Gelley (1933-2023) played a pivotal role in introducing European literary and critical theory to a predominantly English-only U.S. academy in the 1970s. His groundbreaking scholarship includes the monograph Narrative Crossings: Theory and Pragmatics of Prose Fiction (John Hopkins University Press), the edited volume Unruly Examples: On the Rhetoric of Exemplarity (Stanford University Press) and Walter Benjamin’s Passages: Dreaming, Awakening (Fordham University Press). For his scholarship, Gelley received a 1993-1994 Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple Fulbright awards.