Julia Leyda
About
Julia Leyda (MA & 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 (NTNU), Trondheim. Julia 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 and was an affiliated researcher in the Critical Petroaesthetics Collaboratory at the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities. At NTNU, Julia is a founder of the Environmental Humanities Research Group (@EnvHumNTNU), a member of TransLit, and an affiliated researcher in GenderHub. She sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of American Studies and the Environmental Humanities book series at Metzler Verlag / Springer.
Julia is a board member of the NFR's Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH), the NordPlus network Bringing Research in the Green Humanities into Teaching (BRIGHT), and the NFR's Asia-Norway Environmental Storytelling Network (ANEST). Her latest research project role is in the NFR's The Translatability of Oil (TOIL), based at UiO. She has held funded visiting positions at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (München), the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (Potsdam), the Freie Universität Berlin's Graduate School for North American Studies, and the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University.
Research Interests in Cinema and Television Studies
- environmental humanities, petrocultures, cli-fi, and Anthropocene screen cultures
- intersectional feminist cultural studies
- aesthetics and affects of cuteness
- Hollywood cinema and popular culture
Books
- Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, Elements in Environmental Humanities series, 2023).
- Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism's Indelible Mark (co-editor with Theresa L. Geller, Duke UP, 2022)
- The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness (co-editor with Joshua Paul Dale, Joyce Goggin, Anthony P. McIntyre, and Diane Negra, Routledge, 2017)
- Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film (co-editor with Shane Denson, REFRAME, 2016) OA
- American Mobilities: Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture (Transcript-Columbia UP, 2016) OA
- Extreme Weather and Global Media (co-editor with Diane Negra, Routledge, 2015)
- Interviews: Todd Haynes (editor, UP of Mississippi, 2014)
In the Media
- Interviewed on cli-fi and screen productions in BBC (UK)
- Quoted on nerd culture in Verdens Gang (NO)
- Cited on Karens in New York Times Magazine (US)
- Cited on colorism in In the Heights in NRK online and radio (NO)
- Quoted on 2020 US Presidential election in Verdens Gang (NO)
- Cited on cli-fi in Le monde diplomatique Norway edition (NO)
- Interviewed on US police brutality and Minneapolis uprising in Dagbladet (NO)
- Quoted and cited on post-cinema in Forbes (US)
- Interviewed on cuteness in Helsingin Sanomat (FI)
- Cited on apocalyptic fascination in Presset. (NO)
- Interviewed on cli-fi in Presset. (NO)
- Interviewed on US abortion laws in Aftenposten (NO) and on NRK Radio's Her og nå (NO)
- Interviewed on US television reboots in Morning Consult (US)
- Cited on Occupied in El País (ES)
- Interviewed on The Handmaid's Tale in Die Welt (DE)
- Cited on US television revivals in The Conversation (US), picked up in SFGate (US), Scroll (IN), Houston Chronicle (US)
- Interviewed with co-editor on cuteness for New York Magazine (US)
- Interviewed on kawaii for Gemini (NO)
- Interviewed on cli-fi for Avinus (DE)
- Interviewed on online cat videos in Berliner Morgenpost (DE)
Research
Publications
2023
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Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2023)
Gender, Family, and Therapeutic Regionalism in One Mississippi.
Indie TV: Industry, Aesthetics, and Medium Specificity.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Leyda, Julia;
Sulimma, Maria.
(2023)
Pop/Poetry: Dickinson as Remix.
Arts.
Academic article
2022
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Leyda, Julia.
(2022)
Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine.
Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism's Indelible Mark.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Leyda, Julia;
Geller, Theresa L..
(2022)
Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism's Indelible Mark.
Duke University Press. 2022. ISBN 9781478015390.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
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Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2022)
“Tangerine: Merry Christmas, Bitch!”.
Zett filmtidskrift.
Popular scientific article
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Leyda, Julia;
Waade, Anne Marit.
(2022)
Petro-Menopause in "Borgen: Power & Glory".
Los Angeles Review of Books.
Popular scientific article
2021
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Leyda, Julia.
(2021)
“Piracy and Authorship in Breaking Bad Fan Remix Videos.”.
Contemporary Quality TV: The Auteur, The Fans, and Constructions of Gender.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Leyda, Julia.
(2021)
Post-Air-Conditioning Futures and the Climate Unconscious.
Screen.
volum 62 (1).
Academic article
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Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2021)
Post-Sinema – 21. Yüzyıl Sinemasının Kuramsallaştırılması.
2021. ISBN 9786052603192.
Book Translation
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Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2021)
Contemporary Television in/of the Banal Anthropocene.
Screen.
volum 62 (1).
Academic article
2020
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Furuseth, Sissel;
Gjelsvik, Anne;
Gürata, Ahmet;
Hennig, Reinhard;
Leyda, Julia;
Ritson, Katie.
(2020)
Climate Change in Literature, Television and Film from Norway.
Ecozona.
volum 11 (2).
Academic article
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Leyda, Julia.
(2020)
The Feminist Futures of American Studies: Addressing the Post-Weinstein Media and Cultural Landscape.
Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAS).
volum 1 (1).
Academic article
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Leyda, Julia;
Brinch, Sara.
(2020)
Anthropocene slow TV: Temporalities of extinction in Svalbard.
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema.
volum 10 (3).
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2020)
Querying Karen: The Rise of the Angry White Woman.
European Journal of Cultural Studies.
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2020)
Hva er cli-fi? Og hvorfor trenger vi det?.
Z filmtidsskrift.
volum 151 (2).
Popular scientific article
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Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2020)
Vekk med gravalvoret! Om humor og ironi i cli-fi.
Z filmtidsskrift.
volum 151 (2).
Popular scientific article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Tedjasukmana, Chris.
(2020)
Film Studies, Feminism, and Film Curating in Germany: An Interview with Heide Schlüpmann and Karola Gramann.
NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies (EJMS).
Academic article
2019
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Leyda, Julia.
(2019)
Climate Crisis, Financial Crisis: Negative Mobility and Domicide in 21st-Century American Cinema.
Literary Geographies.
volum 5 (2).
Academic article
2018
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Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
"For Superhero Movies".
Montages International.
Editorial
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Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
Hook and Eye.
Communication, Culture & Critique (CCC).
volum 11.
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
“Petropolitics, Cli-Fi, and Occupied.”.
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema.
volum 8 (2).
Academic article
2017
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Dale, Joshua Paul;
Goggin, Joyce;
Leyda, Julia;
Mcintyre, Anthony P.;
Negra, Diane.
(2017)
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
Cute 21st-Century Post-Fembots.
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Dale, Joshua Paul;
Goggin, Joyce;
Leyda, Julia;
McIntyre, Anthony P.;
Negra, Diane.
(2017)
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Routledge. 2017. ISBN 978-1138998766.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
-
Leikam, Susanne;
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Cli-Fi in American Studies: A Research Bibliography.”.
American studies journal.
volum 62.
Academic literature review
-
Leikam, Susanne;
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“‘What’s in a Name?’: Cli-Fi and American Studies.”.
Amerikastudien.
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Breaking Bad: A Recessionary Western.”.
Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre..
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Financial Times: The Economic and Industrial Temporalities in Arrested Development.”.
Television & New Media.
volum 19 (4).
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
Negative Mobilities.
Spaces of Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2016
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
American Mobilities: Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture.
Transcript Verlag. 2016. ISBN 978-3-8376-3455-6.
Academic monograph
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
Demon Debt: Paranormal Activity as Recessionary Post-Cinematic Allegory.
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
Chapter
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Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
“The Dystopian Impulse of Contemporary Cli-Fi: Lessons and Questions from a Joint Workshop of the IASS and the JFKI (FU Berlin),” with Kathleen Loock, Alexander Starre, Thiago Pinto Barbosa, and Manuel Rivera.
Briefs
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Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
The Financialization of Domestic Space in Arrested Development and Breaking Bad.
Class Divisions in Serial Television.
Chapter
-
Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2016)
Perspectives on Post-Cinema: An Introduction.
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
Introduction
-
Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2016)
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
2016. ISBN 9780993199639.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
-
Negra, Diane;
Lagerwey, Jorie;
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
Female-Centered Television in an Age of Precarity.
Genders.
volum 1 (1).
Academic article
-
Fontini, Pinar;
Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2016)
“Post-Sinema Üzerine Düşünceler: Giriş.” Post-Sinema – 21. Yüzyıl Sinemasının Kuramsallaştırılması. Trans. Pinar Fontini. Nota Bene, 2021. Trans. of “Perspectives on Post-Cinema: An Introduction,” by Julia Leyda and Shane Denson. Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film. Eds. Shane Denson and Julia Leyda. REFRAME, 2016.
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
Chapter Translation
2015
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Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2015)
Extreme Weather and Global Media.
Routledge. 2015. ISBN 9781138798793.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
2014
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2014)
Interviews: Todd Haynes.
University Press of Mississippi. 2014. ISBN 1496807901.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Journal publications
-
Leyda, Julia;
Sulimma, Maria.
(2023)
Pop/Poetry: Dickinson as Remix.
Arts.
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2022)
“Tangerine: Merry Christmas, Bitch!”.
Zett filmtidskrift.
Popular scientific article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Waade, Anne Marit.
(2022)
Petro-Menopause in "Borgen: Power & Glory".
Los Angeles Review of Books.
Popular scientific article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2021)
Post-Air-Conditioning Futures and the Climate Unconscious.
Screen.
volum 62 (1).
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2021)
Contemporary Television in/of the Banal Anthropocene.
Screen.
volum 62 (1).
Academic article
-
Furuseth, Sissel;
Gjelsvik, Anne;
Gürata, Ahmet;
Hennig, Reinhard;
Leyda, Julia;
Ritson, Katie.
(2020)
Climate Change in Literature, Television and Film from Norway.
Ecozona.
volum 11 (2).
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2020)
The Feminist Futures of American Studies: Addressing the Post-Weinstein Media and Cultural Landscape.
Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies (JAAS).
volum 1 (1).
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Brinch, Sara.
(2020)
Anthropocene slow TV: Temporalities of extinction in Svalbard.
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema.
volum 10 (3).
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2020)
Querying Karen: The Rise of the Angry White Woman.
European Journal of Cultural Studies.
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2020)
Hva er cli-fi? Og hvorfor trenger vi det?.
Z filmtidsskrift.
volum 151 (2).
Popular scientific article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2020)
Vekk med gravalvoret! Om humor og ironi i cli-fi.
Z filmtidsskrift.
volum 151 (2).
Popular scientific article
-
Leyda, Julia;
Tedjasukmana, Chris.
(2020)
Film Studies, Feminism, and Film Curating in Germany: An Interview with Heide Schlüpmann and Karola Gramann.
NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies (EJMS).
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2019)
Climate Crisis, Financial Crisis: Negative Mobility and Domicide in 21st-Century American Cinema.
Literary Geographies.
volum 5 (2).
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
"For Superhero Movies".
Montages International.
Editorial
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
Hook and Eye.
Communication, Culture & Critique (CCC).
volum 11.
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
“Petropolitics, Cli-Fi, and Occupied.”.
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema.
volum 8 (2).
Academic article
-
Leikam, Susanne;
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Cli-Fi in American Studies: A Research Bibliography.”.
American studies journal.
volum 62.
Academic literature review
-
Leikam, Susanne;
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“‘What’s in a Name?’: Cli-Fi and American Studies.”.
Amerikastudien.
Academic article
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Financial Times: The Economic and Industrial Temporalities in Arrested Development.”.
Television & New Media.
volum 19 (4).
Academic article
-
Negra, Diane;
Lagerwey, Jorie;
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
Female-Centered Television in an Age of Precarity.
Genders.
volum 1 (1).
Academic article
Books
-
Leyda, Julia;
Geller, Theresa L..
(2022)
Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism's Indelible Mark.
Duke University Press. 2022. ISBN 9781478015390.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
-
Dale, Joshua Paul;
Goggin, Joyce;
Leyda, Julia;
McIntyre, Anthony P.;
Negra, Diane.
(2017)
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Routledge. 2017. ISBN 978-1138998766.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
American Mobilities: Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture.
Transcript Verlag. 2016. ISBN 978-3-8376-3455-6.
Academic monograph
-
Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2016)
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
2016. ISBN 9780993199639.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
-
Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2015)
Extreme Weather and Global Media.
Routledge. 2015. ISBN 9781138798793.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2014)
Interviews: Todd Haynes.
University Press of Mississippi. 2014. ISBN 1496807901.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Part of book/report
-
Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2023)
Gender, Family, and Therapeutic Regionalism in One Mississippi.
Indie TV: Industry, Aesthetics, and Medium Specificity.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2022)
Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine.
Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism's Indelible Mark.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2021)
“Piracy and Authorship in Breaking Bad Fan Remix Videos.”.
Contemporary Quality TV: The Auteur, The Fans, and Constructions of Gender.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Dale, Joshua Paul;
Goggin, Joyce;
Leyda, Julia;
Mcintyre, Anthony P.;
Negra, Diane.
(2017)
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
Cute 21st-Century Post-Fembots.
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Breaking Bad: A Recessionary Western.”.
Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre..
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
Negative Mobilities.
Spaces of Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
Demon Debt: Paranormal Activity as Recessionary Post-Cinematic Allegory.
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
Chapter
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
The Financialization of Domestic Space in Arrested Development and Breaking Bad.
Class Divisions in Serial Television.
Chapter
-
Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2016)
Perspectives on Post-Cinema: An Introduction.
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
Introduction
OVERSETTELSESARB
-
Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2021)
Post-Sinema – 21. Yüzyıl Sinemasının Kuramsallaştırılması.
2021. ISBN 9786052603192.
Book Translation
-
Fontini, Pinar;
Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2016)
“Post-Sinema Üzerine Düşünceler: Giriş.” Post-Sinema – 21. Yüzyıl Sinemasının Kuramsallaştırılması. Trans. Pinar Fontini. Nota Bene, 2021. Trans. of “Perspectives on Post-Cinema: An Introduction,” by Julia Leyda and Shane Denson. Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film. Eds. Shane Denson and Julia Leyda. REFRAME, 2016.
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
Chapter Translation
INFORMASJONSMATR
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Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
“The Dystopian Impulse of Contemporary Cli-Fi: Lessons and Questions from a Joint Workshop of the IASS and the JFKI (FU Berlin),” with Kathleen Loock, Alexander Starre, Thiago Pinto Barbosa, and Manuel Rivera.
Briefs
Teaching
Courses
- EH8000 - Topics in Environmental Humanities
- FILM1104 - Nordic Cinema and Television
- FILM1102 - Theories and Aesthetics of Film
- FVP3002 - Currents in Film Studies
- FILM3012 - Currents in Film Studies
Supervision
PhD Supervision
Verena Wurth, 2022 – . Crime-cene: Environmental Crime in New Golden Age TV. Co-supervisors Judith Rauscher and Roman Bartosch. Universität zu Köln, PhD in American Studies.
Mari Bastashevski, March 2020 – . Shell: Modelling for Transmemetic Worlds. Co-supervisors Alexandra Murray-Leslie and Clemens Driessen. NTNU, PhD in Visual Art.
Celina Annabell Stifjell, August 2019 – . Oceanic Others: Feminist, Transnational, and Speculative Representations. Co-supervisors Hanna Musiol and Stacy Alaimo. NTNU, PhD in Environmental Humanities.
MA Supervision
Khaleel Etwebi, 2022. Children as Majestic Statues of Adults: The Significance of Iranian Child-Centered Films after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. NTNU, MA in Film Studies.
Magnus Lillemark, 2020. Empathizing with Fantastical Others: Sublime Monsters, Visions, and Affects in Annihilation and Mad Max: Fury Road. NTNU, MA in Film and Video Production.
Ellen Margrethe Olsen, 2020. A Spiritual Film Language: An Analysis of Spirituality in Hayao Miyazaki Our Neighbor Totoro. NTNU, MA in Film and Video Production.
Sondre Berg Hogstad, 2020. The Emergence and Development of Dystopian Cli-Fi. NTNU, MA in Film and Video Production.
Hanna Sofie Tønsberg, 2020. Masculinity in 21st-Century Scandinavian Cinema. NTNU, MA in Film Studies.
Chris Aarnes Bakkane, 2019. A Protean Figure: A Comparative Analysis of Screen Depictions of the Battle of Stalingrad. NTNU, MA in Film Studies.
Aleksander Koren, 2017. Crystallizing Time: Fragmentary Narratives in the Films of Hong Sang-Soo. NTNU, MA in Film Studies.