Barbara Leckie is Professor in the Department of English and the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University, Ottawa. Most of her work over the last decade focuses on the role of narratives, images, and rhetoric in advancing climate action (see, for example, Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time [Stanford UP, 2022]). She is also the author of several books and articles that consider the role of narrative, images, and rhetoric in advancing social reform including Open Houses: Poverty, the Architectural Idea, and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Britain (U of Penn P, 2018). And she is the editor of Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain: End of Century Assessments and New Directions (Taylor Francis, 2013); and co-editor, with Janice Schroeder, of a new edition of Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor (Broadview, 2019).

She is the Academic Director of Re:Climate: Carleton Centre for Climate Communication and Engagement and the coordinator of the Carleton Climate Commons, an interdisciplinary working group comprised of students, faculty and administrators at Carleton that focuses on the climate crisis through social science and humanities’ perspectives.