Devon Harvey is a first-year PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Jane Tolmie. Their research examines how works of speculative fiction challenge expectations of embodiment through depictions of gender, (dis)ability, and reproductive justice. They are interested in exploring how critical theoretical discourses from transgender studies and (dis)ability studies intersect with the practice of imagining otherwise and how speculative texts (re)cast modes of embodiment as change and space-making forces, offering counternarratives that embrace the irreducible and transformative possibilities of multiple, flexible, and messy identities.
Popular and Genre Fiction; Speculative Fiction; Comics and Sequential Art; Electronic and Digital Literature; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Transgender Studies; Disability Studies; Sexual and Reproductive Justice; Adaptation; New Media; Fan Studies.
Publications
鈥淔alling Back in Love with Trans-Inclusive Feminism: Canadian Creative Artists Re-Story Death and Choose Transformation.鈥 Humanities鈥嬧嬧嬧, vol. 14, no. 1:4, 8 January 2025, .
Selected Presentations & Lectures
[Upcoming] 鈥淚 Hope We Choose Trans-Inclusive Feminism: Re-Storying The 鈥楪ood鈥 Trans Character and Reclaiming Narratives of Trans Death.鈥 2025 Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Consortium Conference, 鈥淓mbodying Feminism: Calling In, Calling Out, Calling to Action鈥 (Asynchronous), April 2025.
[Upcoming] 鈥淔alling Back in Love with Trans-Inclusive Feminism: The T4t Dead Trans Character and Re-Storying Narratives of Trans Death.鈥 2025 Queer Studies Conference, 鈥淐ultivating Resilience, Centering Joy鈥 (Asynchronous), March 2025.
鈥All Boys Aren鈥t Blue: On Naming Hope & Choosing Radical Love.鈥 成人大片, ENGL 279: Literature and Censorship, Guest Lecture, November 2024.
鈥淩eading Screens: The Multimodality of Electronic Literature.鈥 University of Alberta 鈥 Augustana, AUENG 102: Critical Reading, Critical Writing, Guest Lecture, November 2023.
鈥淩endering the Physical: Reading Clarissa鈥檚 鈥楶aper Body.鈥欌 Panel: 鈥淒isembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Texts.鈥 York University English Graduate Association Colloquium, 鈥淒isembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Texts鈥 (Virtual), May 2023.
鈥淟iving Two Lives: The Politics of Digital Culture.鈥 Queen鈥檚 University, GNDS 295: Comics and Politics, Guest Lecture, April 2023.
鈥淥bjectifying the 鈥極ther鈥: Reading Discourses of Pleasure in the 鈥楻ape of Persephone.鈥欌 Queen鈥檚 University Graduate English Society鈥檚 Works In Progress Conference, 27 January 2023.
