Bio: Leila (lee-EYE-la) Walker is the Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian at Queens College. 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 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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