Julia Leyda

Julia Leyda is Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Art and Media Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. She works in the fields of cinema and media studies and American studies. Her areas of interest in research and teaching include environmental humanities, intersectional feminism, and the aesthetics and affects of petrocultures. She is Senior Research Fellow in the Graduate School for North American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin. Her academic work is profiled at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Julia-Leyda.

Julia is author of American Mobilities: Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture (Transcript-Columbia UP, 2016) and Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious (Cambridge Elements in Environmental Humanities, 2023). She has edited or co-edited Todd Haynes: Interviews (UP of Mississippi, 2014), Extreme Weather and Global Media (with Diane Negra, Routledge, 2015), Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film (with Shane Denson, REFRAME, 2016), The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness (with Joshua Paul Dale, Joyce Goggin, Anthony P. McIntyre, and Diane Negra, Routledge 2017), and Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism's Indelible Mark (with Theresa L. Geller, Duke UP, 2022).