Prof. Dr. Julia Leyda

Julia Leyda (PhD, English, University of Washington, 1998) holds a professorship in film studies in the Department of Art and Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, where she is a founder of the NTNU Environmental Humanities Research Group. She is also a senior research fellow in the Graduate School of North American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin, a board member of the Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities, and an affiliated researcher in the Critical Petroaesthetics Collaboratory at the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities. She teaches and conducts research in and across the disciplines including the environmental humanities, intersectional feminism, critical geography, and film/television/media studies. She has written, edited, or co-edited five books: The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness (co-edited with Joshua Paul Dale, Joyce Goggin, Anthony P. McIntyre, and Diane Negra, Routledge, 2017); American Mobilities: Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture (Transcript, 2016); Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film (co-edited with Shane Denson, REFRAME, 2016); Extreme Weather and Global Media (co-edited with Diane Negra, Routledge, 2015); and Todd Haynes: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2014). Julia’s RCC research project focuses on Norwegian screen petrocultures and the climate unconscious in popular television and film, and during her stay in Munich she will also be developing video essays related to her work.

RCC Research Project: The Climate Unconscious: Contemporary Screen Cultures of the Banal Anthropocene

Selected Publications:

• with Sissel Furuseth, Anne Gjelsvik, Ahmet Gürata, Reinhard Hennig, and Katie Ritson. “Climate Change in Literature, Film, and Television from Norway.” Ecozon@ 11 (2020) (forthcoming).

• “Hva er cli-fi og hvorfor trenger vi det?” and “Vekk med gravalvoret! Om humor og ironi I cli-fi.” Zett filmtidskrift “Apokalypse” 151, no. 2 (2020): 5-15; 68-75 (trans. Ingrid Rommetveit).

• “Climate Crisis, Financial Crisis: Negative Mobility and Domicide in 21st-Century American Cinema.” Literary Geographies 5, no. 2 (2019): 128-47. 

• “Petropolitics, Cli-Fi, and Occupied.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 8, no. 2 (2018): 83-101 (special issue on Ecocritical Approaches to Scandinavian Visual Media).

• with Susanne Leikam. “‘What’s in a Name?’: Cli-Fi and American Studies.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 62, no. 1 (2017): 109-38.

• with Kathleen Loock, Alexander Starre, Thiago Pinto Barbosa, and Manuel Rivera. “The Dystopian Impulse of Contemporary Cli-Fi: Lessons and Questions from a Joint Workshop of the IASS and the JFKI (FU Berlin).”  Working Paper of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam (December 2016).