Julia Leyda
Foto:
C.E. Shore
Om
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 (Cambridge University Press, Elements in Environmental Humanities series, forthcoming 2023) OA
- 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 post-#MeToo, post-BLM Hollywood in Dagens Næringsliv D2 (NO)
- 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)
Forskning
Publikasjoner
2026
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Leyda, Julia;
Sulimma, Maria.
(2026)
Drawn to Light: Gendered Electricity and the Climate Unconscious in Yellowjackets.
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Leyda, Julia.
(2026)
Environmental Film and Television Studies.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
2025
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Bastashevski, Mari;
Murray-Leslie, Alexandra Nicki;
Leyda, Julia.
(2025)
Pending Xenophora.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doktoravhandling
2024
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Leyda, Julia;
Seymour, Nicole.
(2024)
Aromantic Comedy: The Aro/Ace Aesthetics of Together Together.
Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Leyda, Julia;
Loock, Kathleen.
(2024)
"There is a storm coming!".
[in]Transition
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Stifjell, Celina Annabell;
Leyda, Julia;
Musiol, Hanna Marta;
Alaimo, Stacy.
(2024)
She-Monsters and Sea Changes: Imagining Submersion in Speculative Feminist Fiction.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doktoravhandling
2023
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Leyda, Julia.
(2023)
Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious.
Cambridge University Press
Vitenskapelig monografi
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Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2023)
Gender, Family, and Therapeutic Regionalism in One Mississippi.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
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Leyda, Julia;
Sulimma, Maria.
(2023)
Pop/Poetry: Dickinson as Remix.
Arts
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2022
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Leyda, Julia;
Geller, Theresa L..
(2022)
Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism's Indelible Mark.
Duke University Press
Antologi
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Leyda, Julia.
(2022)
Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
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Leyda, Julia;
Waade, Anne Marit.
(2022)
Petro-Menopause in "Borgen: Power & Glory".
Los Angeles Review of Books
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
2021
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Leyda, Julia.
(2021)
Post-Air-Conditioning Futures and the Climate Unconscious.
Screen
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2021)
Contemporary Television in/of the Banal Anthropocene.
Screen
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Leyda, Julia.
(2021)
“Piracy and Authorship in Breaking Bad Fan Remix Videos.”.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
2020
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Leyda, Julia.
(2020)
The Feminist Futures of American Studies: Addressing the Post-Weinstein Media and Cultural Landscape.
JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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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
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2020)
Querying Karen: The Rise of the Angry White Woman.
European Journal of Cultural Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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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)
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2020)
Vekk med gravalvoret! Om humor og ironi i cli-fi.
Z filmtidsskrift
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
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Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2020)
Hva er cli-fi? Og hvorfor trenger vi det?.
Z filmtidsskrift
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
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Leyda, Julia;
Brinch, Sara.
(2020)
Anthropocene slow TV: Temporalities of extinction in Svalbard.
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2019
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Leyda, Julia.
(2019)
Climate Crisis, Financial Crisis: Negative Mobility and Domicide in 21st-Century American Cinema.
Literary Geographies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2018
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Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
"For Superhero Movies".
Montages International
Leder
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Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
“Petropolitics, Cli-Fi, and Occupied.”.
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
Hook and Eye.
Communication, Culture & Critique (CCC)
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2017
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Dale, Joshua Paul;
Goggin, Joyce;
Leyda, Julia;
McIntyre, Anthony P.;
Negra, Diane.
(2017)
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Routledge
Antologi
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Leikam, Susanne;
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“‘What’s in a Name?’: Cli-Fi and American Studies.”.
Amerikastudien
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Breaking Bad: A Recessionary Western.”.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
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Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Financial Times: The Economic and Industrial Temporalities in Arrested Development.”.
Television & New Media
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Leikam, Susanne;
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Cli-Fi in American Studies: A Research Bibliography.”.
American studies journal
Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel
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Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
Cute 21st-Century Post-Fembots.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
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Dale, Joshua Paul;
Goggin, Joyce;
Leyda, Julia;
Mcintyre, Anthony P.;
Negra, Diane.
(2017)
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
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Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
Negative Mobilities.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
2016
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Negra, Diane;
Lagerwey, Jorie;
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
Female-Centered Television in an Age of Precarity.
Genders
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2016)
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
REFRAME Books
Antologi
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
American Mobilities: Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture.
Transcript Verlag
Vitenskapelig monografi
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Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2016)
Perspectives on Post-Cinema: An Introduction.
Innledning i antologi
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Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
The Financialization of Domestic Space in Arrested Development and Breaking Bad.
Faglig kapittel
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Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
Demon Debt: Paranormal Activity as Recessionary Post-Cinematic Allegory.
Faglig kapittel
2015
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Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2015)
Extreme Weather and Global Media.
Routledge
Antologi
2014
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Leyda, Julia.
(2014)
Interviews: Todd Haynes.
University Press of Mississippi
Antologi
Tidsskriftspublikasjoner
-
Leyda, Julia;
Sulimma, Maria.
(2026)
Drawn to Light: Gendered Electricity and the Climate Unconscious in Yellowjackets.
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leyda, Julia;
Seymour, Nicole.
(2024)
Aromantic Comedy: The Aro/Ace Aesthetics of Together Together.
Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
"For Superhero Movies".
Montages International
Leder
-
Leyda, Julia;
Loock, Kathleen.
(2024)
"There is a storm coming!".
[in]Transition
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2021)
Post-Air-Conditioning Futures and the Climate Unconscious.
Screen
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Negra, Diane;
Lagerwey, Jorie;
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
Female-Centered Television in an Age of Precarity.
Genders
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2021)
Contemporary Television in/of the Banal Anthropocene.
Screen
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2020)
The Feminist Futures of American Studies: Addressing the Post-Weinstein Media and Cultural Landscape.
JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Furuseth, Sissel;
Gjelsvik, Anne;
Gürata, Ahmet;
Hennig, Reinhard;
Leyda, Julia;
Ritson, Katie.
(2020)
Climate Change in Literature, Television and Film from Norway.
Ecozona
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2020)
Querying Karen: The Rise of the Angry White Woman.
European Journal of Cultural Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
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)
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leyda, Julia;
Waade, Anne Marit.
(2022)
Petro-Menopause in "Borgen: Power & Glory".
Los Angeles Review of Books
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leyda, Julia;
Sulimma, Maria.
(2023)
Pop/Poetry: Dickinson as Remix.
Arts
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2020)
Vekk med gravalvoret! Om humor og ironi i cli-fi.
Z filmtidsskrift
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leyda, Julia;
Rommetveit, Ingrid.
(2020)
Hva er cli-fi? Og hvorfor trenger vi det?.
Z filmtidsskrift
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
“Petropolitics, Cli-Fi, and Occupied.”.
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2018)
Hook and Eye.
Communication, Culture & Critique (CCC)
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leikam, Susanne;
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“‘What’s in a Name?’: Cli-Fi and American Studies.”.
Amerikastudien
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Financial Times: The Economic and Industrial Temporalities in Arrested Development.”.
Television & New Media
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leikam, Susanne;
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Cli-Fi in American Studies: A Research Bibliography.”.
American studies journal
Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel
-
Leyda, Julia;
Brinch, Sara.
(2020)
Anthropocene slow TV: Temporalities of extinction in Svalbard.
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2019)
Climate Crisis, Financial Crisis: Negative Mobility and Domicide in 21st-Century American Cinema.
Literary Geographies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Bøker
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Leyda, Julia.
(2023)
Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious.
Cambridge University Press
Vitenskapelig monografi
-
Leyda, Julia;
Geller, Theresa L..
(2022)
Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism's Indelible Mark.
Duke University Press
Antologi
-
Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2016)
Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film.
REFRAME Books
Antologi
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2014)
Interviews: Todd Haynes.
University Press of Mississippi
Antologi
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
American Mobilities: Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in US Culture.
Transcript Verlag
Vitenskapelig monografi
-
Dale, Joshua Paul;
Goggin, Joyce;
Leyda, Julia;
McIntyre, Anthony P.;
Negra, Diane.
(2017)
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Routledge
Antologi
-
Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2015)
Extreme Weather and Global Media.
Routledge
Antologi
Del av bok/rapport
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2026)
Environmental Film and Television Studies.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Leyda, Julia;
Negra, Diane.
(2023)
Gender, Family, and Therapeutic Regionalism in One Mississippi.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2022)
Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2021)
“Piracy and Authorship in Breaking Bad Fan Remix Videos.”.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
“Breaking Bad: A Recessionary Western.”.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Leyda, Julia;
Denson, Shane.
(2016)
Perspectives on Post-Cinema: An Introduction.
Innledning i antologi
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
Cute 21st-Century Post-Fembots.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
The Financialization of Domestic Space in Arrested Development and Breaking Bad.
Faglig kapittel
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2016)
Demon Debt: Paranormal Activity as Recessionary Post-Cinematic Allegory.
Faglig kapittel
-
Dale, Joshua Paul;
Goggin, Joyce;
Leyda, Julia;
Mcintyre, Anthony P.;
Negra, Diane.
(2017)
The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
-
Leyda, Julia.
(2017)
Negative Mobilities.
Vitenskapelig kapittel
Studentoppgave eller avhandling
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Bastashevski, Mari;
Murray-Leslie, Alexandra Nicki;
Leyda, Julia.
(2025)
Pending Xenophora.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doktoravhandling
-
Stifjell, Celina Annabell;
Leyda, Julia;
Musiol, Hanna Marta;
Alaimo, Stacy.
(2024)
She-Monsters and Sea Changes: Imagining Submersion in Speculative Feminist Fiction.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doktoravhandling
Undervisning
Emner
Formidling
2026
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KonferanseforedragMusiol, Hanna; Leyda, Julia; Nurmi, Tom; Lowery, Alyssa Christine Magee. (2026) Ecocinema and Visual Activism Otherwise: A Roundtable with Julia Leyda and Tom Nurmi, led by Alyssa Magee Lowery. EcoCinema and Youth: Forging Visual Activist Cultures & Pedagogies International Conference
2025
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2025) ‘Our’ Dystopian Home: Privilege and Care in Domestic Anthropocenes. The Gendered Anthropocene
2024
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KonferanseforedragStørvold, Tore; Leyda, Julia. (2024) Screen Greenwashing: Audiovisual Imaginaries of Norwegian Oil Futures. Storytelling for Environmental Futures
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia; Størvold, Tore. (2024) Screen-Washing: Audiovisual Translations of Norwegian Oil Futures. Oil in Translation: A Workshop on Petro-Aesthetics and Energy Transition
2021
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Konferanseforedrag
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2021) Theorizing Norwegian Petrocultures. Nordic Anthropocene Media: Between Screen and Green Life
2020
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ForedragLeyda, Julia; Carson, Siri Granum; Klose, Alexander; Steininger, Benjamin. (2020) Plankton and Drillhead: Norway's Carbon Modernity (panel). Plankton and Drillhead: Norway's Carbon Modernity
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Foredrag
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Konferanseforedrag
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Foredrag
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KonferanseforedragHøier, Svein; Tiller, Asbjørn; Leyda, Julia. (2020) A cli-fi leitmotif. The use of low frequency rumble in The Day After Tomorrow. Norsk Medieforskerkonferanse 2020
2019
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Foredrag
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Foredrag
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KonferanseforedragJørgensen, Dolly; Leyda, Julia; Kramvig, Britt; Armiero, Marco. (2019) Environmental Humanities of the Global North Panel Discussion. Nordic Environments: Opening Conference of the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2019) “Post-Air-Conditioning Futures and the Climate Unconscious.”. Society for Cinema and Media Studies
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2019) “Nordic Green and Contemporary Norwegian Screen Petrocultures.”. Im Zeichen der Warnutopie – Aktuelle skandinavische Utopien, Dystopien und Science fiction
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2019) “Post-Air-Conditioning Futures and the Climate Unconscious.”. NordMedia Conference
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia; Loock, Kathleen; Pantenburg, Volker; Lee, Kevin B.; DeFren, Allison; Galibert-Laîné, Chloé. (2019) Film and Media Scholarship in the Digital Age Roundtable. Videographic Criticism: Aesthetics and Methods of the Video Essay
2018
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2018) "Post-Air-Conditioning Futures and the Climate Unconscious". Anthropocene Stories Symposium
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2018) “Face Forward: Gender, Survival, and the Rückenfigur in Big Little Lies.”. Console-ing Passions Conference
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Konferanseforedrag
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2018) “The Transmedial Utopian Afrofuturist Extractivist Blockbuster: Marvel’s Black Panther.”. Literature/Film Adaptation Conference
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ForedragLeyda, Julia; Loock, Kathleen. (2018) "Da tut sich was: Wie Netflix, revivals, und starke Frauen die amerikanische Fernsehlandschaft verändern". Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2018) “The Utopian Afrofuturist Extractivist Blockbuster: Marvel’s Black Panther.”. Fiction Film Workshop, Norsk Medieforskerkonferanse
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2018) “The Utopian Afrofuturist Extractivist Blockbuster: Marvel’s Black Panther.”. Resisting Extractivism in Border Zones: Art and Protest from the Arctic North to the Global South
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ForedragLeyda, Julia; Dale, Joshua Paul. (2018) "Kosmorama Goes Kawaii". Kosmorama International Film Festival Seminar
2017
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2017) “Financial Times: The Economic and Industrial Temporalities in Arrested Development.”. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2017) “Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine.”. Guest Lecture
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Konferanseforedrag
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2017) “Negative Mobility and Domicide in 21st-Century US Cinema.”. Mobilizing Home(s): New Approaches to the Study of Home in Contemporary Literature and Culture
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ForedragLeyda, Julia. (2017) "Talking about Film: Hidden Figures.". Kosmorama Trondheim International Film Festival
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2017) “The Feminist Futures of American Studies.”. Austrian Association for American Studies Annual Conference
2016
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Intervju
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Foredrag
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2016) Cute 21st-Century Post-Fem-Bots (Keynote). Encoding the Future: Perspectives on the Making of the ‘Human’
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Konferanseforedrag
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2016) Cli-Fi TV: Premediated Global Petro-Crisis in Occupied. The Collapse of Memory – Memory of Collapse: Remembering the Past, Re-Constructing the Future in Periods of Crisis
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KonferanseforedragLeyda, Julia. (2016) ‘Winter is Coming’: Contemporary QTV and Climate Change. Austrian Association for American Studies