Dr. Leah Marie Becker is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her current book project uses what she calls “environmental domesticity” to trace a prehistory of current eco-conscious consumer behaviors to nineteenth-century domestic ideology, white femininity, and American literature. Her scholarship has appeared in Studies in American Fiction, Edge Effects, and Render: Food and Feminist Quarterly. Her non-scholarly interests include drawing, baking, gardening, and snuggling with her Scottie dog, MacDougal.