Devon Harvey is a first-year PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Jane Tolmie. Their research examines how works of speculative fiction complexify and challenge expectations of embodiment through depictions of gender, (dis)ability, and reproductive justice. They are interested in exploring how critical theoretical discourses from transgender and (dis)ability studies offer new ways of reading complex embodiment in speculative fiction that necessarily embrace the messiness and challenge expectations of an 鈥渋deal鈥 or static embodiment.
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.
Selected Presentations & Lectures
鈥All Boys Aren'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 Paper Body.鈥 Panel: 鈥淒isembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Texts.鈥 York University English Graduate Association Colloquium (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 Other: 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, January 2023.
