Department of English

Leona Fisher is an Associate Professor in the Department of English. She is an expert in children's literature; women writers of the 19th century; Victorian nonfiction, fiction and poetry; feminist theory; narratology; women’s studies; Latin American fiction (19th & 20th c.); children's literature and culture; narrative theory; Victorian theatre.

She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and A.B. from Stanford University.

Publications she has written include: Lemon, Dickens, and "Mr. Nightingale’s Diary": A Victorian Farce (1988); "Mark Lemon’s Three Farces on the ‘Woman Question’" (1988); "The Challenge of Women’s Studies: Questions for a Transformed Future at Georgetown" (1990); "The Victorian Temper: A Guide Through the Desert" (2001). FORTHCOMING: "Nancy Drew and Her Readers: Constructions of American Girlhood, 1930-1980"; "Tom Sawyer and The Great Brain: Language, Ritual, Race, and the Construction of the ‘Real American Boy’"; "Competency and Resistance: A Double Perspective on Teaching Books to Children in the Next Millennium"; "Focalizing the Unfamiliar: Laurence Yep’s Child in a Strange Land."
Work in Progress: book manuscript: Nancy Drew and the Girl Scouts: Constructions of American Girlhood, 1930-1980

Honors, Grants, and Awards: Georgetown University Summer Research Grants (1978, 1979, 1989, 1994); Senior Faculty Research Fellowship (Fall 2001); Bibliographical Society of America (2000); Bunn Award for Faculty Excellence, Georgetown College seniors (1982); CASE Professor of the Year (Silver 1985; Bronze 1986)