Suzanne Leonard

Suzanne Leonard is Professor of Literature and Writing at Simmons University, Director of the Master's program in Gender and Cultural Studies, and co-coordinator of the interdisciplinary minor in Cinema and Media Studies.  She is also the Chair of the board of Console-ing Passions, an organization devoted to the study of Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism. 

Leonard is most interested in the intersections between feminism and popular culture, and her recently published work has examined topics including: public feminisms, chic noir, white feminism, wedding comedies, and The Real Housewives franchise. She is co-editor of the recently published anthology Imagining We in the Age of I: Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture​ (Routledge, 2021)​​​. She is also the author of Wife, Inc.: The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century (NYU, 2018); Fatal Attraction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009); and the co-editor of Fifty Hollywood Directors (Routledge, 2015).

Leonard has been featured in The Boston Globe, The Guardian, USA Today, and a variety of media outlets, including The Los Angeles Review of Books, NPR and the podcast Public Intellectual with Jessa Crispin.