Current research interests

Leslie's research concerns architecture (including buildings, theory, interiors and urbanism) in social and cultural context. Her book Architecture and Truth in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (2004) explored the many meanings of architectural honesty in early modernism, and reinterpreted four iconic Viennese buildings with a view to their use and reception.

Her current research focuses on the connections between psychiatry, architecture and visual culture:

• Between 2004 and 2008, she was director of the project 'Madness and Modernity: Art, Architecture and Mental Illness in Vienna and the Habsburg Empire, 1890-1914', which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
• In 2009, she co-curated an international loan exhibition coming out of this project, and is currently writing a monograph entitled Freedom and the Cage: Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890-1914.
• More information on 'Madness and Modernity'

Leslie will be a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in the Spring Term of 2012.