Olivia is a PhD candidate in the Department of English Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
She is interested in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, early modern women writers, neurodiversity, disability studies, medical humanities, gender studies, and genre.
2022 – Present. University of California, Santa Barbara. PhD Candidate in English Literature.
Dissertation: Did Neurodivergents Have a Renaissance?: Neurodiversity and Genre in Early Modern English Literature.
Committee: Bernadette Andrea (Chair), Andrew Griffin, James Kearney, Sonya Freeman Loftis
2020 – 2022. University of California, Santa Barbara. M.A. in English Literature.
2017 – 2020. Tulane University. B.A. in English and Medieval/Early Modern Studies. Summa Cum Laude with Schoarly Honors.
Honors Thesis: “Like a Dull Actor I Have Forgot My Part:” Coriolanus and Shakespearean Autism.
Committee: Scott Oldenburg, Adam McKeown, Michael Brumbaugh.
2024. Brython Davis Fellowship, UCSB Graduate Division.
2024. Scholarship from the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, Rare Book School.
2024. Grant for Conference Travel. UCSB Graduate Student Association.
2024. Grant for Conference Travel, UCSB English Department.
2023. Grant for Conference Travel, Shakespeare Association of America.
2023. Grant for Conference Travel, UCSB Academic Senate.
2022 – 2023. Early Modern Center Fellowship, UCSB English Department.
2022 – Present. Public Humanities Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
2024. Richard Helgerson Graduate Student Achievement Award, UCSB English Department.
2020. William Wallace Peery Valedictory Society, Newcomb-Tulane College.
2020. Lydia Frotscher Best Undergraduate Essay, Tulane English Department.
2020. Medieval/Early Modern Study (MEMS) Prize, Tulane MEMS Department.
2020. Induction, Phi Beta Kappa.
2017 – 2020. Dean’s List, Tulane University.
2017. Presidential Scholarship Award, Tulane University.
Modern Language Association.
Shakespeare Association of America.
Renaissance Society of America.
Renaissance Conference of Southern California.
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association.
Language Competency
French, Intermediate.
Middle English, Intermediate.
Latin, Beginner.
Qualifying Exams
First Field - Renaissance Literature
Second Field - Genders and Sexualities
Third Field - Literature and the Environment