Catherine Constable

Biography

Catherine Constable gained her BA (Hons) in Philosophy (part one) and English Literature (part two) from St John’s College, Cambridge. She holds an MA with Distinction in Women’s Studies from the University of York and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick. She taught in the Film Studies department at Sheffield Hallam University for a decade before moving to Warwick in the Autumn of 2007. Her main research interests include continental philosophy, postmodernism, feminist theory and Hollywood cinema. Catherine is also on the editorial boards of Film-Philosophy and the paper journal Science Fiction Film and Television.

Research Interest

Her book Thinking in Images draws together different philosophical constructions of the figure of woman and looks at the ways in which these can be contested and recreated through a close study of films featuring Marlene Dietrich. This interest in creating new methodologies for inter-relating theory and film texts also informs herwriting on The Matrix Trilogy, which treats the films as complex adaptations of Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation.