Catherine O'Brien (film scholar)

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Catherine O'Brien (born in 1962) is a British academic, film scholar, linguist and writer. [1] Her main fields are French cinema; the First World War [2] in French and German cultures in relation to art and comparative literature [3] and the intersections between cinema, theology and religion. [4] [5] [6]

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Early life and education

O'Brien obtained a Bachelor of Arts (1985) as well as a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.;1994) both in French and German from the University of Hull in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. [7] [8]

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 (FASS) at the Penrhyn Road Campus. [9] [10] 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. [11] 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. [12] She went on to become the co-director of the Center for Marian Studies at the University of Roehampton in England. [13] [14] O'Brien has been a visiting professor at several universities in the West such as the University of Westminster [15] or the University of Notre Dame located in South Bend in Indiana. [16] [17]

Selected bibliography

Non-exhaustive list of her works: [18]

Books

Articles

Book sections

Conferences

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Classifications: PN1995.9.M334, 791.43682". World Cat Identities. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. ↑ Fell, A.; Sharp, I. (12 April 2007). The Women's Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-19. Springer. ISBN   978-0-230-21079-0.
  3. ↑ Rinke, andrea (2006). Images of Women in East German Cinema, 1972-1982: Socialist Models, Private Dreamers and Rebels. Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN   978-0-7734-5684-6.
  4. ↑ "Virtual international authority file - Individual 271389553". VIAF.
  5. ↑ "IdRef Website - Identifiers and repositories for Higher Education". IdRef. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
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  7. ↑ Deighton, Alan (1995). Order from Confusion: Essays Presented to Edward McInnes on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. New German Studies, German Department, University of Hull. ISBN   978-0-85958-750-1.
  8. ↑ O'Brien, Catherine; O'Brien, Professor Catherine (1997). Women's Fictional Responses to the First World War: A Comparative Study of Selected Texts by French and German Writers. P. Lang. ISBN   978-0-8204-3141-3.
  9. ↑ Lloyd, Professor Fran; Lloyd, Fran; O'Brien, Catherine (2000). Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places: Rethinking Culture. Berghahn Books. ISBN   978-1-57181-788-4.
  10. ↑ Reinhardt, Catherine A. (2006). Claims to Memory: Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean. Berghahn Books. ISBN   978-1-84545-079-3.
  11. ↑ Leglu, Catherine (2 December 2017). Between Sequence and Sirventes: Aspects of the Parody in the Troubadour Lyric. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-351-19829-5.
  12. ↑ Gratton, Johnnie (2000). Expressivism: The Vicissitudes of a Theory in the Writing of Proust and Barthes. European Humanities Res Ctr. ISBN   978-1-900755-26-9.
  13. ↑ "About | The Centre for Marian Studies". CMS. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  14. ↑ "Oxford University Department for Continuing Education". www.conted.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  15. ↑ "Varia | University of Westminster, London". www.westminster.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  16. ↑ Dame, University of Notre (15 March 2016). "Lecture: The Virgin Mary on Screen - Mother and Disciple // College of Arts and Letters // University of Notre Dame". College of Arts and Letters. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  17. ↑ "In the News: May 5, 2016". udayton.edu. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  18. ↑ "Items where Kingston Author is "O'Brien, Catherine" - Kingston University Research Repository". eprints.kingston.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  19. ↑ O'Brien, Catherine (2018). Martin Scorsese's Divine Comedy: Movies and Religion. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   978-1350003293.
  20. ↑ O'Brien, Catherine (1997). Women's Fictional Responses to the First World War: A Comparative Study of Selected Texts by French and German Writers. USA: University of California. ISBN   0820431419.
  21. ↑ University of London (6 November 2018). "Dr Catherine O'Brien's Works". University of London Research Repository (Kingston Annex). Retrieved 11 November 2018.
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