Leila Walker

Digital Scholarship Librarian

I read books, climb rocks, and run far.

Academic Interests

British Romanticism, Librarianship,Digital Humanities, Plant Humanities

Positions

Assistant Professor, Benjamin Rosenthal Library, Queens College

Publications

Open Educational Resources for a More Just Romanticism.” Eighteenth Century Fiction 37.2 (April 2025): 413–439.

Palimbiosis.” Essays in Romanticism 31.2 (October 2024): 87–112.

“Feminist Scholarly Editing: A Provocation.” With Marlowe Daly-Galeano, Melissa Homestead, and Claudia Stokes. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. Forthcoming.

Climate Changes: Mary Shelley on Roger Dodsworth.” European Romantic Review vol. 34, no. 3 (June 2023): pp. 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 68 (2019/2020): 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.