Olivia Henderson

Olivia Henderson is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English, where she studies 16th- and 17th-century English literature, early modern women writers, disability studies (particularly neurodiversity), and the intersections between disability studies and ecocriticism.

She is a project manager at the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), where she recently collaborated on “Envisioning the Digital Archive,” a summer initiative that explored digital, public-facing archival techniques.

Read Olivia’s blog post for the UCSB Early Modern Center.

Connect with Olivia on LinkedIn.

Read Olivia’s post on the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Blog, which argues for putting an end to timed essays

Learn more about Olivia’s research in this short video: