Cornelia Catlin Coulter (1885 – April 27, 1960) was an American classicist and academic who was Professor of Latin at Mount Holyoke College from 1926 to 1951.
[1][2] Coulter's PhD dissertation, Retractatio in the Ambrosian and Palatine Recensions of Plautus: A Study of the Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Stichus and Trinummus, was published as a Bryn Mawr College Monograph in 1911.
Following this, Coulter returned to brief periods of teaching at Mount Holyoke College for a semester in 1957 and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1959.
Alongside this activity, in 1946 Coulter became the Chair of a special committee for summer scholarships to the American School of Classical Studies in Rome.
To her teaching and to her students, both in and out of class, and to her colleagues she gave continuously and unstintingly of her own amazing store of knowledge, her penetrating understanding of classical ideas and ideals, her sense of style, and above all her own personality, fearless and determined in her support of the classics and any cause of right and justice, yet gentle, modest and unselfishly self-effacing to a degree rarely encountered.The Cornelia Catlin Coulter papers are held in the Mount Holyoke College Archives including correspondence, poetry, and Coulter's PhD dissertation submitted to Bryn Mawr College in 1911.