Rate My Professor Catherine Fowler

Her research focuses on historical and contemporary world cinema, expanding critical frameworks for women, independent, Belgian, and Jewish filmmakers; contradictions within national cinema and independent practices; the film-art nexus, notably gallery films that interrogate narrative, time, and spectatorship; and representations of rural space, place, and identity in films. Expertise spans feminism and film, European cinema, art cinema, and experimental cinema. Major publications include the monograph Sally Potter (University of Illinois Press, 2008), the first book-length analysis of the filmmaker's integration of song, dance, performance, and poetry; Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Bloomsbury, 2013); edited The European Cinema Reader (Routledge, 2002); co-edited Representing the Rural: Space, Place, and Identity in Films about the Land (Wayne State University Press, 2006) and Epistolary Entanglements in Film, Media and the Visual Arts (Amsterdam University Press, 2023). Recent outputs encompass the audiovisual essay "On being 'with' normal people" (NECSUS, 2024) and articles such as "Pressing back with Jenni Hermoso: Understanding the non-consensual kiss as abusive" (European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2025). Honors include a Fulbright Scholarship for visits to UCLA, Yale, and Harvard to explore video art, and runner-up for the 2014 BAFTSS best article prize for "Remembering Cinema ‘elsewhere’: From Retrospection to Introspection in the Gallery Film".