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Katie Pleming is a Lecturer in French Francophone Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She joined the university in 2021 as an Early Career Fellow after completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests focus on the connections between cinematic representation, ethics, and politics, with current studies emphasizing postcolonial intermediality in the works of contemporary French francophone female filmmakers. Pleming's upcoming monograph, 'Marguerite Duras and Claire Denis: Cinema at the Edge of the Political', investigates the intersections of ethics, politics, and experimental cinematic forms. Additionally, she is a co-editor of the forthcoming volume 'Rage: Affect and Resistance in Post-1968 French Francophone Culture' and is contributing to a special issue of 'Paragraph' focused on Thinking Care in the Twenty-First Century. She has received the Malcolm Bowie Prize in 2022 for an article published in the same year and a special commendation for the Article Prize in 2024 in the broader discipline of French Studies, specifically Modern and Contemporary France. Pleming is also involved in various academic networks, serving as Co-Principal Investigator for the Digital Public Space Research Network and a Project Member of 'Artificial Intelligence & Humanities'.
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