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

Leila Walker is the Humanities and 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. She heads the Open Educational Resources Initiative, a grant-funded program that guides faculty in the responsible creation of OER courses. This program has saved Queens College students an estimated $2.5 million in textbook fees since 2018.

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
  • Women and Gender Studies

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

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

• • “Resurrecting Natures with Charlotte Smith and Ebony G. Patterson.” Essays in Romanticism vol. 33, no.1 (Spring 2026): 65–90.
  • “Feminist Scholarly Editing: A Provocation.” With Marlowe Daly-Galeano, Melissa Homestead, and Claudia Stokes. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature vol. 44, no. 2 (Fall 2025): 271–294.
  • “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.
  • “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.