Profile
Leila Walker
Education
- BA, The Gallatin School at New York University, 2002
- MLIS, ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ, CUNY, 2019
- PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2015
Biography
Leila Walker is the Digital Scholarship Librarian. She oversees the creation and development of resources to support digital scholarship at ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ 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 theÌý, 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 ºì¶¹ÊÓÆµ Library faculty, she taught in the English department and served as the Research Associate forÌýShelley 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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Research Areas
- Digital humanities
- British Romantic literature
- Pedagogy
- Plant humanities
- History of the book
Teaching
- Library 100: Information Literacy
- Library 170: Writing and Library Research Methods – The History of the Book
Selected Publications and Links
- “.â€ÌýEuropean Romantic ReviewÌý34.3 (June 2023): 377–382.
- “.â€ÌýKeats-Shelley JournalÌý69 (2020/2021): 37–56.
- “.â€ÌýHybrid Pedagogy.ÌýApril 2021.
- “.â€ÌýEssays in RomanticismÌý27.2 (Fall 2020): 115-133.
- “.â€ÌýStudies in RomanticismÌý59.3 (Fall 2020): 329-349.
- “â€ÌýKeats-Shelley JournalÌý69 (2020): 187-188.
- “.â€ÌýHybrid Pedagogy. July 2016.
- “.â€ÌýEuropean Romantic ReviewÌý24.2 (April 2013): 231-250.
- “.â€ÌýLiterature CompassÌý9.10 (Oct. 2012): 679-693.
- “Ghosts in the House: Margaret Oliphant’s Uncanny Response to Feminist Success.â€Ìý. Ed. Tamara Wagner. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2009.
