Katja (Stanislawa Katharina) Sturm-Schnabl (born 17 February 1936 in Zinsdorf, municipality of Magdalensberg) is a Carinthian-Slovene linguist and literary historian known for her research and contemporary eyewitness accounts of the 20th century in central Europe.

Katja Sturm-Schnabl was born into a politically active Slovenian family on a farm in Carinthia, Austria, northeast of Klagenfurt.

During this time, she was particularly concerned with supporting students, for whom she organized numerous university and non-university colloquia and presentation opportunities.

In 1993, Sturm-Schnabl habilitated with her dissertation on the correspondence between Franz Miklosich and the southern Slavs (Korespondenca Frana Miklošiča z Južnimi Slovani), for which she received the Leopold Kunschak Prize.

As a participant in many international conferences, she has widely published in numerous languages (including Slovenian, French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, German, and Japanese), and she promotes intercultural dialogue through the translation of selected key works from literature and research.