Olivia Anderson

Thesis Title: The Literary Transformation of Nonconformist Spiritual Conversion, 1662-1689

Supervisor: Erica Longfellow

Research Interests: faith and literature; faith and culture; the Restoration period; religious, social, and political dissent; women's writings; John Milton; John Bunyan; Lucy Hutchinson; John Dryden; Richard Baxter

Doctoral Research: I am focusing religious dissenters during the Restoration era, and the ways in which they address spiritual conversion in literary forms other than the usual sermon, religious treatise, or autobiography.