Leah B Becker

Dr. Leah Marie Becker is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she earned her PhD in English Literature in 2024. Her current book project explores 'environmental domesticity' in nineteenth-century American literature, linking it to white femininity and modern eco-conscious consumerism. Her scholarship has been published in journals such as Studies in American Fiction, Edge Effects, and Render: Food and Feminist Quarterly.