Catherine Fowler (born 1969) is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in historical and contemporary film studies.
Fowler completed a PhD titled The films of Chantal Akerman: a cinema of displacements at the University of Warwick in 1995.
[3][4] From 1994 to 1998, Fowler was screen correspondent for the Créteil International Women's Film Festival.
[5][6] Fowler was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to visit UCLA, Yale and Harvard Universities to talk about video art.
[7] The judges described Fowler's essay as an "insightful analysis of moving image installations that utilise and reflect on sequences from existing films suggests new ways of thinking about our engagement with cinema history, and provides an interesting intervention into contemporary debates around the notion of cinephilia.