She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Arts, Memory, and Communities at Coventry University.
[1] Leonard received her PhD from the University of Warwick and the Université de Neuchâtel in 2015.
[7][8] Leonard has published on Shakespeare's Hamlet, Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646), the female gaze, and representations of foreignness on the early modern stage.
[9] Leonard is a co-editor on the Notebooks volume of The Complete Works of Thomas Browne, forthcoming with OUP.
She was the Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellow at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, in 2022.