Student Information
Graduate Student
English (Literature)
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Long Bio
Olivia Leonard is a PhD candidate in English Literature. Her research focuses on literary expressions of early modern natural philosophy, especially representations of non-human animal life, techniques of categorization, and theories of ecological relation.
She held the Portnoff Fellowship in Comparative Literature at ASU in 2025 - 2026 and was awarded a 2026 Paul Oskar Kristeller Fellowship from the Renaissance Society of America for her dissertation project on Thomas Traherne’s “sensible ecology.”
www.olivialeonard.com