{"id":254,"date":"2009-06-29T14:11:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T18:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?page_id=254"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:25:15","slug":"leckie-barbara","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/leckie-barbara\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Leckie"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>I am also cross-appointed with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/\">Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture&nbsp;<\/a>(ICSLAC);<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Academic Director, <a href=\"https:\/\/reclimate.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Re.Climate: Centre for Climate Communication and Engagement<\/a>;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/\">Carleton Climate Commons<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Climate change and the humanities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nineteenth-century print culture and narratives of social reform<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cultural history of procrastination<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Architecture and&nbsp;the built environment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Print censorship, law, and literature<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Critical and cultural theory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My research addresses the impact of cultural forms and representations on social and political change and knowledge production. How does the way a problem is described and framed shape the solutions that are imagined? What are the most effective ways to generate social change? How should we understand nineteenth-century expos\u00e9s of injustice that do not generate anticipated reforms? How should we understand our current failure to respond adequately to calls for climate change action? What new formal approaches can we imagine to shift the terms of stalled debates? What new histories can we write to inflect familiar issues with fresh energy and vision? I address these and other questions through historically- and theoretically-informed interdisciplinary work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Honours and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>FASS Research Achievement Award (2023-2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SSHRC Insight Grant (2017-2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carleton Research Achievement Award (2018-19)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nominee, Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award (2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FASS Research Achievement Award (2016-17, 2009-10)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SSHRC Institutional Grant (2013-2014, 2010-11)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SSHRC Standard Research Grant (2002-2006)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2025\/09\/B.-Leckie-2022-book.jpg\" alt=\"Climate Change, Interrupted Representation and the Remaking of Time\" class=\"wp-image-27084\" style=\"width:147px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/title\/?id=31102\"><em>Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time<\/em><\/a>. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayhew, Henry. <a href=\"https:\/\/broadviewpress.com\/product\/london-labour-and-the-london-poor\/#tab-description\"><em>London Labour and London Poor<\/em><\/a>. Co-edited volume with Janice Schroeder. Downsview: Broadview P, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennpress.org\/9780812250299\/open-houses\/\"><em>Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>Philadelphia: Univ. of Penn P, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=hbVQEAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PR4&amp;lpg=PR4&amp;dq=Sanitary+Reform+in+Victorian+Britain:+End+of+Century+Assessments+and+New+Directions.&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=kNUDZouHz9&amp;sig=ACfU3U1y9kF1zy5pfKGGtd6XTZHi6IKPdQ&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiz0aSszcH3AhV3lnIEHf7cA9MQ6AF6BAgXEAM#v=onepage&amp;q=Sanitary%20Reform%20in%20Victorian%20Britain%3A%20End%20of%20Century%20Assessments%20and%20New%20Directions.&amp;f=false\">Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain: End of Century Assessments and New Directions<\/a>.<\/em> Ed. Vol. 6. (General Ed. of 6-volume edition: Michelle Allen Emerson.) London: Pickering &amp; Chatto, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennpress.org\/9780812234985\/culture-and-adultery\/\"><em>Culture and Adultery: The Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914<\/em><\/a>. Philadelphia: Univ. of Penn P [New Cultural Studies Series], 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ecwpress.com\/products\/rohinton-mistry-and-his-works?variant=3326495045\"><em>Rohinton Mistry<\/em><\/a>. Toronto: ECW P, 1996. Rpt. <em>Canadian Writers and Their Works.<\/em> Vol. 11 Eds. Robert Lecker, Jack David, Ellen Quigley. Toronto: ECW P, 1996. 104-61.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Articles and Book Chapters (selected)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCo-Writing the Climate Change Classroom.\u201d <em>Teaching the Literature of Climate Change<\/em>. Ed. Debby Rosenthal. MLA Publications. Forthcoming 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWorking with Mayhew: Collaboration and Historical Empathy in Precarious Times.\u201d (Co-written with Jenna Herdman and Janice Schroeder) <em>Victorian Culture and Experiential Learning: Historical&nbsp; Encounters in the Classroom. <\/em>Ed. Kevin A. Morrison. Palgrave, 2022. 49-64.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDesire Paths: Nineteenth Century Studies . . .\u201d <em>Nineteenth-Century Contexts. <\/em>43.5 (2021): 581-87.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHenry Mayhew: Urban Ecologist.\u201d <em>Victorian Literature and Culture<\/em> 48.1 (Spring 2020): 219-41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIntroduction.\u201d (Co-written with Janice Schroeder)<em> London Labour and London Poor<\/em>. Downsview: Broadview P, 2020. 11-35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018Animated Conversations\u2019: Form, Transformation, and the Category of the Novel in the 1880s.\u201d <em>Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: the 1880s.<\/em> Eds. Penny Fielding and Andrew Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2019. 139-56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSlow Causality: The Function of Narrative in a Time of Climate Change\u201d (co-written with Tina Young Choi). <em>Victorian Studies <\/em>60.4 (2018): 565-87.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSequence and Fragment, History and Thesis: Samuel Smiles\u2019s <em>Self-Help, <\/em>Social Change, and Climate Change.\u201d<em> Nineteenth-Century Contexts<\/em> 38.5 (2016): 305-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReader-Help: How to Read Samuel Smiles\u2019s <em>Self-Help<\/em>.\u201d <em>Media and Print Culture Consumption in <\/em><em>Nineteenth-Century Britain: <\/em><em>The Victorian Reading Experience<\/em><em>. <\/em>Eds. Anna Gasparini and Paul Rooney. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 15-32.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHistorical Distance and Questions of Form in 5\u00bd Points.\u201d <em>Journal of the Canadian Historical Association <\/em><em>\/ Revue de la SHC<\/em> 26.2 (2015): 22-31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Victorian Culture of Censorship.\u201d <em>Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. <\/em>Eds. Dino Franco Felluga, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Linda K. Hughes. Oxford: Blackwell, 2015. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literatureencyclopedia.com\/subscriber\/tocnode.html?id=g9781118405383_chunk_g97811184053835_ss1-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><u>Blackwell Reference Online<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.branchcollective.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Bitter Cry of Outcast London Controversy (1883): Print Expos\u00e9 and Print Reprise.<\/a>\u201d BRANCH (Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History). Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of <em>Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net<\/em>. 2014. Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.branchcollective.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prince Albert&#8217;s Exhibition Model Dwellings in Hyde Park, 1851.<\/a>\u201d BRANCH (Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History). Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of <em>Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net<\/em>. 2014. Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Novel and Censorship in Late-Victorian England.\u201d<em> Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel. <\/em>Ed. Lisa A. Rodensky. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013. 166-82.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Blog Posts (selected)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energyhumanities.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Break Time<\/a>\u201d Energy Humanities.&nbsp;3 April 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/occupy-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Occupy Time.<\/a>\u201d Writers Rebel. 12 January 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energyhumanities.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Page 99 Test on <em>Climate Change, Interrupted<\/em>.<\/a> Page 99 Blog. 20 December 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/niche-canada.org\/2021\/09\/28\/alarming-the-rhetoric-of-warning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alarming!: House on Fire and the Rhetoric of Warning.<\/a>\u201d Network in Canadian History and Environment (NICHE). . 28 September 2021. Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/broadviewpress.com\/working-together-with-henry-mayhew-an-invitation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Working Together with Henry Mayhew: An Invitation.<\/a>\u201d Blog Post. (Co-written with Janice Schroeder) 10 October 2019. Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/broadviewpress.com\/do-protests-work-from-an-1838-peoples-charter-to-todays-climate-marches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Do Protests Work?: From an 1838 People\u2019s Charter to Today\u2019s Climate Marches.<\/a>\u201d Blog Post. (Co-written with Janice Schroeder) 12 December 2019. Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Presentations (selected)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKeynote RoundTable on Climate Scholarship and Activism.\u201d Invited Speaker. University of Ottawa English Graduate Student Conference. 10 March 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cExhilaration: Co-writing Climate Action through Literature and the Humanities.\u201d Keynote for English Graduate Student \u201cExhaustion\u201d Conference at the University of Toronto (online). 22 April 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTalking Mayhew: Patterers, Prisoners, and Protest.\u201d (Co-presented with Jan Schroeder). Belcher Victorian Studies Colloquium, Oxford University. 5 April 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnsettling Time(s): Railways and Planes, Crashing and Falling; or the Temporalities of Ecocide.\u201d NAVSA Conference (online). 4 March 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlarming!: House on Fire and the Rhetoric of Warning.\u201d&nbsp; ASLE Conference (online). 24 July 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cClimate Change Keyword: Interruption.\u201d Poster Presentation. Mind &amp; Life Summer Research Institute (online), \u201cThe Mind, the Human-Earth Connection, and the Climate Crisis.\u201d 8 June 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThinking about Time in the Era of Climate Change.\u201d Susan Stanford Friedman Roundtable, Carleton University, 6 March 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrankenclimate.\u201d The Gothic, the Abject and the Supernatural: 200 Years of Mary Shelley\u2019s Frankenstein Conference. Ottawa, Ontario. 1 November 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cClimate Change: Critical Inquiries, Collaborations, Action.\u201d Invited Seminar Leader. NAVSA Conference. Columbus, Ohio. 19 October 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPost-time.\u201d Vcologies Conference. University of Chicago. 8 September 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSteaming: Frances Chantrey\u2019s Statues of James Watt, Climate Change, and Critique, Then and Now.\u201d Upcoming INCS Conference, Houston, March 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPrecarity and Collaboration.\u201d Symposium on Images of Poverty and Displacement: Henry Mayhew and Richard Mosse. Carleton University. 30 November 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGetting Things Done: Steam, Industrial Modernity, and Procrastination in James Watt, Karl Marx, and John Ruskin.\u201d NAVSA Conference. Orlando, Florida. 14 October 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToo Late.\u201d Invited speaker, Victorian Ecotime, CUNY Graduate Centre. 4 May 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cImpedimenta: Forms of Incompletion and Delay in Ruskin, Marx, Mayhew\u2019s Calls for Social Change.\u201d NVSA Conference. Philadelphia, PA. 18 March 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018Everything Moves in a Circle\u2019: Recycling, Cyclical Time, and <em>Stillstellung <\/em>(Zero-Hour) in Henry Mayhew\u2019s Ecological Writing.\u201d INCS Conference. 3 March 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acceptance Speech (on climate change) for being inducted as honorary member to the Golden Key International Honour Society. 26 January 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHenry Mayhew: Recycling, Remediation, Collaboration.\u201d (With Janice Schroeder.) NAVSA Conference. Banff, Albert. 16 November 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVSAO 50<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Panel.\u201d Invited Talk. Congress. Ryerson University. Toronto, Ontario. 29 May 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cClimate Change, Mediated: Chimney\u2019s, Smoke, and Gardens.\u201d NAVSA Conference. Florence, Italy. May 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Table Condition: Things, Ghosts, Angels, and Climate Change in Manchester, 1840-50.\u201d INCS Conference. Philadelphia, PA. 17 March 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOf Two Minds: Interdisciplinarity in Thought and Practice.\u201d Invited Participant for Special Graduate Student Caucus. INCS Conference. Philadelphia, PA. 18 March 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLetting\/Critiquing: A Dialogue on the Production of Social Time, Social Change, and Wilkie Collins\u2019s <em>Poor Miss Finch.<\/em>\u201d NAVSA Conference. Phoenix, Arizona. 3 November 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cClimate Change, Interrupted (1859).\u201d V-Cologies Conference. Davis University, CA. 17 September 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cClimate Change, Interrupted (2014-15).\u201d Narrative Conference. Amsterdam, Holland. 18 June 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSequence and Fragment, History and Thesis: Samuel Smiles\u2019s Self-Help, Social Change, and Climate Change.\u201d Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conferences. 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