Katja Lindskog

Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies with over 10 years of experience teaching undergraduate students, and six years experience leading a year-long undergraduate program in the humanities. Delivered engaging lectures, continuous curriculum development, and program leadership. Recognized for fostering a welcoming and rigorous classroom environment. Passionate about driving student and faculty success, and overall program excellence.

2016 Well-known things: Experience, Distance, and Perspective in William Morris’ ‘The Defence of Guenevere’, Victorian Poetry, 53, 4

2013 George Egerton and the Scandinavian Breakthrough, Scandinavian Studies, 84

That Future Is Now: Ecocriticism in the Age of Climate Change, book manuscript in progress

Byron, Slow Violence and Modern Catastrophe, Studies in Romanticism, in progress

• President, the Elizabethan Club, Yale University, 2025-2027
• Senior Thesis Adviser, Humanities Program, Yale University, 2017-Present
• Senior Thesis Adviser, English department, Yale University, 2018-Present
• Board Member, William Morris Society US, 2022-Present
• Residential College Adviser, Benjamin Franklin College, Yale University, 2021-Present
• Sophomore Adviser, Yale College, 2021-Present
• Yale Admissions Committee for Class of 2024, 2026, Yale University, 2020, 2022
• Executive Committee, Environmental Humanities, Yale University, 2019-Present
• Faculty sponsor, Arts, Literature and the Environment Working Group, Yale University, 2019-2022
• Senior Thesis Adviser, Ethics, Politics & Economics, Yale University, 2020
• Admissions Committee, Directed Studies, Yale University, 2016-Present
• Faculty Member, The Elizabethan Club, Yale University, 2017-Present
• Exam Committee, Masterpieces of Western Literature and Humanities, Columbia University, 2015
• Organizer, Nineteenth-Century Colloquium, Columbia University, 2011-2012
• Member, MLA, 2014-Present

The Aesthetics of Adaptation, 2024-Present

Modernities: Past and Present in Fiction since 1789, 2022-Present

Climate Change and the Humanities, 2018-Present, 

Directed Studies: Literature, 2016-Present

Epic in the European Literary Tradition, 2017-2019 

Literature, Labor, and Climate Change, 2017-2019

Beauty, Fashion, and Ethics, 2015-2018 

Tragedy in the European Literary Tradition, 2015-2019, 

Major English Texts, 2014 

Literature Humanities: Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy, 2011-2015

University Writing, 2008-2011 

Oriental Tales in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2008 

American Film Genres, 2007

• Keywords in the Environmental Humanities, Yale, Environmental Humanities graduate certificate seminar invited lecture, 2024
• Science fiction and the IPCC, Nord University, invited conference presentation, 2024
• Sustainable Transitions and Archipelago Cultures in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, Yale, The Whitney Humanities Fellowship lecture series, 2023
• Ecocriticism and the Climate Crisis, University of Newcastle, NSW, 2021
• On Being Called to Account: Literature in the Age of Climate Change, Yale, St Thomas More Lecture series invited lecture, 2021
• Byron’s volcanic violence, Nord University graduate seminar invited lecture, 2021
• Where is Ecocriticism?, INCS, 2020
• Dickens and the Climate Crisis: The Business of Ordinary and Extraordinary Lives, NeMLA, 2020
• Pollution in Literature and Science, Yale Program in Environmental Humanities, Roundtable, 2020
• Klein, Nixon, and the poetry of slow violence, Nord University, invited guest lecture, 2020
• Hard Times for Hard Times: Ecocriticism in an Age of Climate Change, University of New South Wales, Arts & Culture School Seminar series, 2019
• Byron, Slow Violence and Modern Catastrophe, Nord University, invited guest lecture, 2019
• Culture, Capital, and Climate, Yale University, panelist for the Theory and Media Studies Colloquium, 2019
• Victorian Literature and the Energy Humanities, Yale University, panellist for the Energy Humanities roundtable, 2018
• Roundtable on Stefanie Markovits’ book Aspiring to Life: The Victorian Verse-Novel, Yale University, 2018
• Flaubert and Nineteenth-Century Literary Realism, Yale University, lecture for the DS: Literature Lecture Series, 2018
• Ovid in the Age of #MeToo, Yale University, lecture for the DS: Literature Lecture Series, 2017
• Narrative and Ethical Change in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, University of Toronto, Canada, CSECS & NEASECS Joint Annual Conference, 2017
• Three Sisters and Acting as a Way of Life, Yale University, invited lecture for the DS: Literature Lecture Series, 2017
• Madame Bovary and Flaubert’s clichés, Yale University, invited lecture for the DS: Literature Lecture Series, 2016
• Missing Images: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Politics of History, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, Poetry, Pictures and Politics in the Nineteenth Century Conference, 2010
• ‘To talk of well-known things past now and dead’: William Morris and visual text, State University of California, Long Beach, Annual Comparative Literature Conference, 2010
• Actors and Genre: The problem of character in American cinema, Columbia University, invited lecture for Prof. Maura Spiegel in American Film Genres, 2007
• George Egerton and the Figure of the Scandinavian Woman in 1890s New Woman Fiction, University of Oxford, English Department Graduate Conference, 2006

• 2022-2023, Whitney Humanities Fellow, Yale University
• 2017-01-01, Residential Fellow, Benjamin Franklin College, Yale University
• 2014-01-01, Core Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia University
• 2012-01-01, The Annual Preceptor Teaching Award, Columbia University
• 2010-01-01, The Marion E. Ponsford (M.A. '55) Fellowship Fund, Columbia University
• 2009-01-01, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Stipend, Columbia University
• 2006-01-01, Marjorie Hope Nicholson Fellowship, Columbia University
• 2005-01-01, UK Arts and Humanities Research Council – Full Postgraduate Award
• 2005-01-01, Sir Charles Harris Convocation Prize, University of London
• 2003-01-01, University of London Award for Academic Achievement