Simone Pfleger, PhD
Pronouns: they, them
Contact
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts - Womens & Gender Studies
- pfleger@ualberta.ca
Overview
About
Simone Pfleger is Associate Professor of Queer Studies with dual appointments in Women’s and Gender Studies and Modern Languages and Cultural Studies. Their research is grounded in gender and queer theoretical methodologies and engages with notions of (political) subjectivity, affect, intimacy, and precarity. Their first book Untimely Bodies, Untimely Aesthetics: Temporality, Relationality, and Intimacy in the Cinema of the Berlin School (McGill Queen's University Press, 2023) foregrounds how queer conceptualizations of temporality can engage notions of subjectivity, relationality, and intimacy in visual representation. The book examines how many figures in Berlin School fims grapple with an unattainable desire for connection, placed in landscapes shaped by hegemonic heteronormative intimacies, and a linear temporal organization of life that conforms to mainstream, traditional rhythms, and milestones.
Their current project, titled "Making Strides," centers nonbinary and trans sporting bodies in ultra trail running in Alberta, and asks what race policies and runners’ experiences might reveal about access, equity, and belonging for all bodies not only in specific running events but also for society at large.