My name is Leila (lee-EYE-la) Walker, and I am a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. My dissertation, “Touching Time: Forms of Romantic Temporality,” explores the relationship between tactility, affect, and temporality in British Romantic literature. My publications include “Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Ekphrasis of Hair” (European Romantic Review, April 2013), “The Child of the City and the ‘Palimpsest’ at Sea: De Quincey’s Chronological Constraints” (Literature Compass, October 2012), and “Ghosts in the House: Margaret Oliphant’s Uncanny Response to Feminist Success” (in Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel, ed. Tamara Wagner, Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2009). I am currently Managing Editor for the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, an open, innovative journal that seeks to broaden our understanding of what constitutes academic scholarship. Last year, Stephen Klein and I co-edited and introduced Issue 4 of the journal. I am also working on the final two volumes of Shelley and His Circle as a research associate in the Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at the New York Public Library. My side projects include cooking vegan food, climbing rocks, and running far.