Suzanne Leonard

Suzanne Leonard is Professor of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Simmons University, and co-coordinator of the interdisciplinary minor in Cinema and Media Studies.

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.

Leonard is the author of Wife, Inc.: The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century (2018) and Fatal Attraction (2009). She is also co-editor of Fifty Hollywood Directors (2014) and Imagining We in the Age of I: Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture (2021), which won MeCCSA’s (Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association) Outstanding Achievement Award for Edited Collection of the Year. She is currently working on a book entitled A Feminist Guide to Marriage, which will be published by Goldsmiths Press in the fall of 2026.

 Leonard has been featured in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Guardian,  Fortune, USA Today and a variety of media outlets, including The Los Angeles Review of Books and NPR.