Leisha Jones

Professional Bio

Leisha Jones is Associate Teaching Professor of English at Penn State University, where she teaches courses on women writers, digital literature and culture, feminist theory, and girl literature. Her published works include articles in Journal of Narrative Theory, Deleuze Studies, Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, and Visual Culture and Gender. Her monograph Reading Girls Reading: The Emergence of 21st Century Girl Literature is currently under review. Jones is working on two new book projects, Hysterical Biopolitics: Invisibility, Illness, and the Feminine, exploring intersections of gender, disability, medical narrative, and online participatory communities, and Twit Lit, or How To Do Things with Characters, which takes on Twitter literature and digital autobiography.