Catriona Jane Seth, FBA (born 30 August 1964) is a British scholar of French literature and the history of ideas.

[1] Seth studied law and modern languages (French and Spanish) at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1986: as per tradition, her BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) in 2001.

[1][3][7] Her doctoral thesis was on Évariste de Parny, the 18th-century French poet,[6] and was supervised by Sylvain Menant.

[10] On 1 October 2015, she was appointed Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.

[16] In July 2018, Seth was awarded an honorary doctorate "for services to education" by Queen's University Belfast.