Profile

• • BA, The Gallatin School at New York University, 2002
  • MLIS, Queens College, CUNY, 2019
  • PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2015

Leila Walker is the Digital Scholarship Librarian. She oversees the creation and development of resources to support digital scholarship at Queens College and invites partnerships with faculty, staff, and students on their digital projects. In coordination with the Center for Teaching and Learning, she seeks out new opportunities to advance digital pedagogy and leads and organizes training workshops. In 2018, she spearheaded the Open Educational Resources and Digital Literacy Faculty Fellowship, a grant-funded program that guides faculty in the responsible creation of OER courses.

Leila holds a PhD in British Romantic literature from the CUNY Graduate Center. Prior to joining the Queens College Library faculty, she taught in the English department and served as the Research Associate for Shelley and his Circle, a multi-volume scholarly publication of manuscript materials held in the Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle. She held a Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2015-2016. She has been awarded a Pforzheimer Research Grant from the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the Emerging Scholars Award (Honorable Mention) from the Nineteenth Century Studies Association.

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• • English
  • Linguistics and Communication Disorders

• • Digital humanities
  • British Romantic literature
  • Pedagogy
  • Plant humanities
  • History of the book

• • Library 100: Information Literacy
  • Library 170: Writing and Library Research Methods – The History of the Book

• • “Climate Changes: Mary Shelley on Roger Dodsworth.” European Romantic Review 34.3 (June 2023): 377–382.
  • “Editing in End Times; or, In Search of the Editor of The Last Man.” Keats-Shelley Journal 69 (2020/2021): 37–56.
  • “Intimacy and Interruption in Remote Library Instruction.” Hybrid Pedagogy. April 2021.
  • “Sensitive Plants and Senseless Weeds: Plants, Consciousness, and Elizabeth Kent.” Essays in Romanticism 27.2 (Fall 2020): 115-133.
  • “Elizabeth Kent’s New Tales of Botanical Friendship.” Studies in Romanticism 59.3 (Fall 2020): 329-349.
  • “On Being a Romanticist in the Library.” Keats-Shelley Journal 69 (2020): 187-188.
  • “Beyond Academic Twitter: Social Media and the Evolution of Scholarly Publication.” Hybrid Pedagogy. July 2016.
  • “Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Ekphrasis of Hair.” European Romantic Review 24.2 (April 2013): 231-250.
  • “The Child of the City and the Palimpsest at Sea: De Quincey’s Chronological Constraints.” Literature Compass 9.10 (Oct. 2012): 679-693.
  • “Ghosts in the House: Margaret Oliphant’s Uncanny Response to Feminist Success.” Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel. Ed. Tamara Wagner. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2009.