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- Name
- Title
- Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Cinema and Media Studies
- Phone
- 617-521-2544
- Office
- 300 The Fenway - C-301D , MA
- suzanne.leonard@simmons.edu
Suzanne Leonard is Assistant Professor of English, and co-coordinator of the college's interdisciplinary minor in Cinema and Media Studies.
She regularly instructs classes on film studies and film theory, women's literature, literary interpretation, and feminist cultural studies, and frequently teaches courses affiliated with the Honors Program, the Women's and Gender Studies department and the college's Gender and Cultural Studies Master's program.
Professor Leonard's specialties include feminist media studies, film and television studies, women's literature, and ethnic American fiction. Her book-length investigation of the 1987 film Fatal Attraction, published in 2009, was the inaugural text in Wiley-Blackwell's series Studies in Film and Television. She is most interested in the intersections between feminism and popular culture, and her work has examined topics including: the treatment of the adultery plot in feminist novels; marriage envy; Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's epic romance; and working women in American cinema.
Professor Leonard is currently at work on a book on marriage and wives in popular American culture.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Master of Arts
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Bachelor of Arts
Dartmouth College
Book Publication
Fatal Attraction. Wiley-Blackwell Studies in Film and Television. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Article Publications
"'I Must Really Be an Emma Bovary': Female Literacy and Feminist Fiction." Genders Online Journal. Vol. 51. Spring/Summer 2010. http://www.genders.org/g51/g51_leonard.html
"The 'True Love' of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton." Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film History. Ed. Vicki Callahan. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010. 74-97.
"When Whiteness Turns to Blackness: White Women's Marital Betrayals in Colonial Settings." At Home and Abroad: Historicizing Whiteness in Literature and Performance. Ed. LaVinia Delois Jennings. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. 119-143.
"The Science of Stepford: Technologies of Sexuality in a Postfeminist Age." Sex and Sexuality in a Feminist World. Ed. Karen Ritzenhoff and Katherine Hermes. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. 14-25.
"Ready-Maid Postfeminism: Assessing the Figure of the Domestic in Contemporary American Cinema." Feminism, Domesticity, and Popular Culture. Ed. Stacy Gillis and Joanne Hollows. New York: Routledge, 2008.
"'I Hate My Job, I Hate Everybody Here': Adultery, Boredom and the Working Girl in Twenty-First Century American Cinema." Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture. Eds. Diane Negra and Yvonne Tasker. Duke University Press, 2007
"Marriage Envy." Women's and Gender Studies Quarterly. Spec. Issue on Envy. Ed. Jane Gallop.
34.3&4 (Fall/Winter 2006): 43-64.
Online Publications
"Could The Good Wife Be More Prescient?" Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture. May 28, 2011. http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/05/28/could-the-good-wife-be-more-prescient/
"'That's All I Intend to Share Right Now': Adultery and Privacy in The Good Wife." Flow TV, 12.03, July 2010. http://flowtv.org/2010/07/thats-all-i-intend-to-share-right-now/
"The Melancholy of Friday Night Lights." Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture. June 19, 2010. http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/06/19/the-melancholy-of-friday-night-lights/