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.
[7][8] 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.
[11] O'Brien was the Course Director for the Master of Art in Film Studies from 2003 to 2007.