She has written on Walter Benjamin, Adorno, Kracauer and the Frankfurt School, and explored themes such as animation, chemical industries, including IG Farben and Imperial Chemical Industries, liquid crystals, fascism and culture, Weimar radio, screen and digital cultures, Marxism and Anarchism, fashion, design and craft, Romanticism, and Black radicalism in Somers Town.
In particular she liked bands such as Alternative TV, Buzzcocks, and The Nightingales for their musical repertoire, whilst being drawn to the political leanings of Crass and Poison Girls.
Leslie oversaw the final period of the MRes/PhD programme of the London Consortium, on which she had taught a course on Cold with Steven Connor.
[6] Leslie is a co-director and academic lead at the People's Museum: Somers Town founded by Diana Foster.
[7][8] She helped to curate the lead exhibition - Lost and Found: Somers Town, which opened in May 2022.