Katie Pleming

Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies

  • French and Francophone Studies
  • Department of European Languages and Cultures
  • School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Contact details

Address

Street

Room 2.40
50 George Square

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9LH

Biography

Background

Dr Katie Pleming is a Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She joined Edinburgh in 2021 as an Early Career Fellow after completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Her current research explores postcolonial intermediality in work by contemporary French and francophone female filmmakers. Her first monograph, Marguerite Duras and Claire Denis: Cinema at the Edge of the Political (in preparation for Legenda), examines the links between ethics, politics and experimental cinematic form. She is co-editor of the volume Rage: Affect and Resistance in Post-1968 French and Francophone Culture and Thought (forthcoming, Peter Lang), and is currently co-editing a special issue on care for Paragraph. 

Responsibilities & affiliations

Co-Principal Investigator, The Digital Public Space Research Network (Una Europa): https://www.ucm.es/digitalpublicspace

Undergraduate teaching

Intimacy, Power, Identity: The Films of Claire Denis 

Cultural Responses to War 

French 2: Literature and Culture 

French 2: Language 

Picturing the Self: Contemporary French and Francophone Life Writing

French-English Translation for Francophone Students 

 

Postgraduate teaching

MSc Intermediality: Film, Literature, and Race: Postcolonialism, Decoloniality, and Critical Race Theory

MSc Translation Studies: Portfolio of Written Translation in French

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Research summary

Dr Pleming's research reflects on connections between cinematic representation, ethics, and politics. Her current research focuses on postcolonial intermediality in work by contemporary French and francophone female filmmakers.

She is Co-Principal Investigator on The Digital Public Space Research Network (Una Europa): https://www.ucm.es/digitalpublicspace

 

 

‘L’amour se dit dans un regard’? Immigration, visibility and representation in Marguerite Duras’s Les Mains négatives and Alice Diop’s Nous, Modern & Contemporary France (2023) DOI: 10.1080/09639489.2023.2251410

Cinema at the Edge of the Political: The Films of Marguerite Duras and Claire Denis (monograph in preparation, Legenda).

'Incest, affect and ambiguous politics in two films by Claire Denis', Screen, Volume 63, Issue 3, Autumn 2022, Pages 309–326, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjac025

‘India Song’s politics of sound’, French Screen Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2021), pp. 60–80

‘Desire, Temporality, “Liquid Perception”: Deleuze and the Films of Marguerite Duras’ in Aberrant Nuptials: Deleuze and Artistic Research, Leuven University Press, 2019, pp. 429–436

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