Career
"When the real matters: interpreting the visual with Catherine Belsey". Visiting Professor of English at the University of Derby, Fellow of the English Association and Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. She chaired the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University (1988-2003) before moving to Swansea University (2006-2014).
Her book Critical Practice (1980) was an influential poststructuralist text in suggesting new directions for literary studies.
She has consistently aligned herself with international innovations in the theory and practice of criticism. Belsey has written about the effect of romance novels on modern society.