Olivia is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is interested in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, early modern women writers, neurodiversity, disability studies, and genre. She received her B.A. in English Literature and Medieval/Early Modern Studies from Tulane University, and she received her M.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her dissertation is entitled “Did Neurodivergents Have a Renaissance?: Neurodiversity and Genre in Early Modern English Literature,” and her first article, “‘Like a dull actor now I have forgot my part:’ Coriolanus and Shakespearean Autism,” was recently published in Shakespeare Studies.

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