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Catherine Witt is a Professor of French at Reed College, affiliated with the French Department and the Division of Literature and Languages. Her research focuses on modern French literature, film studies, and 19th-century poetry, particularly examining poet-translators like Nerval, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé. She co-edited several influential books, including Poets as Readers in Nineteenth-Century France (2015) and Redécouvrir Louisa Siefert (2024), and contributed to special issues on documentary film ethics.
Education: BA (Modern History & French) from Oxford University (Merton College), MA (Modern European Literature) from the University of Sussex, PhD (French and Italian) from Princeton University. She also studied at École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) and was a visiting scholar at the Centre d’Études Poétiques (ENS–Lyon).
Research interests include the intersection of poetry and translation, the role of women writers in 19th-century France, and the ethics of documentary filmmaking. Her work bridges literary analysis with interdisciplinary approaches, engaging critical theory and film studies.
Her publications span peer-reviewed journals such as Romanic Review and Nineteenth-Century French Studies, reflecting a commitment to both historical scholarship and contemporary cultural critique.
