Catherine O'Brien (film scholar)


Catherine O'Brien is a British academic, film scholar, linguist and writer. Her main fields are French cinema; the First World War in French and German cultures in relation to art and comparative literature and the intersections between cinema, theology and religion,,.

Early life and education

O'Brien obtained a Bachelor of Arts as well as a Doctor of Philosophy both in French and German from the University of Hull in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England,.

Academic Career

From 1989 to 2017, O'Brien was a senior lecturer at Kingston University, a public research university located within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, in South West London, United Kingdom. O'Brien was mainly based at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Penrhyn Road Campus,. She taught a wide range of courses on both the French and the Film Studies degrees and was a Module Leader for French Cinema, New Wave Cinema, European Cinema, Female Archetypes on Screen and final-year French Language. O'Brien was the Course Director for the Master of Art in Film Studies from 2003 to 2007. As Director of Studies, she has supervised Doctorate theses. She went on to become the co-director of the Center for Marian Studies at the University of Roehampton in England,. O'Brien has been a visiting professor at several universities in the West such as the University of Westminster or the University of Notre-Dame-du-Lac located in South Bend in Indiana,.

Selected bibliography

Non-exhaustive list of her works:

Books