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Simone Pfleger is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Women's and Gender Studies and Modern Languages at the University of Alberta. Her research is grounded in queer theoretical methodologies and engages with concepts of temporality, (political) subjectivity, affect, intimacy, and precarity, particularly in relation to post-2000 German-language literature, film, and culture. Simone has published in journals such as Feminist German Studies and Feminist Media Studies. Her recent book, 'Un timely Bodies, Un timely Aesthetics: Temporality, Relationality, Intimacy Cinema Berlin School,' released by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2023, foregrounds queer conceptualizations of temporality by examining visual representations and notions of subjectivity and relationality in the context of Berlin School films. It investigates themes of unattainable desire and the landscapes shaped by hegemonic heteronormative intimacies and linear temporal organizations that conform to mainstream traditional life rhythms. Currently, she is involved in a project titled 'Making Strides,' which is an autoethnographic study where she theorizes the fluidity and instability of socio-culturally contingent binary gender norms through participation in ultra-distance trail running events, while also working on advocacy for policy changes in Alberta races.
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Management