Oliver holds a PhD in English and Visual Studies from Pennsylvania State University. Her dissertation, “Fair Creature of an Hour: Romantic Ballet and Its Affects of Disfigurement”, traces the aesthetic intersections between 2nd-generation British Romantic poetry and Romantic ballet, with special attention to the Romantic body as the nexus of a powerful affective miasma.

Recently, she has presented work in London at The Shelley Conference (2024), at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference (NeMLA 2022, 2023), and the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA 2021).

She has academic articles forthcoming in Romantic Textualities and The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies. In June-July of 2024, she taught a study abroad course in London on reading and writing enchantment in British literature.

In her spare time, Oliver enjoys reading manga, playing Dungeons & Dragons, and writing stories. Some of her creative work can be found at Night Picnic Press, Moss Puppy Magazine, and Flash Fiction Online.