Leigh-Michil George

Leigh-Michil George has a PhD in English from UCLA and an MFA in screenwriting from American Film Institute. She teaches in the English department at Geffen Academy at UCLA. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Rambling, Fine Books & Collections, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction.

Heady Politics in the Ton: On Shondaland’s “Queen Charlotte”

Leigh-Michil George reviews Shondaland’s “Queen Charlotte,” and asks about the nature of the game being played....

LEIGH-MICHIL GEORGE

TELEVISION

The Mandates of Magic: On Timeka N. Tounsel’s “Branding Black Womanhood”

What are the mandates of Black Girl Magic? Leigh-Michil George looks at the history of “Essence” magazine and the complicated personal politics of representation in an essay about Timeka N. Tounsel’s “Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic.”...

LEIGH-MICHIL GEORGE

NONFICTION

CULTURAL STUDIES

GENDER & SEXUALITY