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Devon Harvey

Biography

Devon Harvey is a PhD candidate working under the supervision of Dr. Jane Tolmie. Their research centres on the work of imagining otherwise in speculative fiction and the ways this "otherwise" materializes through speculative renderings of trans*, (dis)abled, and reproductive bodies.

Research Interests

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 Publications

Publications

[Accepted] “A Love Affair With Mirrors: Transness, Transformation, and Comics’  Transgender Mirror Scene in Paul Jenkins and Leila Leiz’s ALTERS.” CLOSURE: Kieler e-Journal fĂźr Comicforschung, no. 12, Fall 2025.

“Falling Back in Love with Trans-Inclusive Feminism: Canadian Creative Artists Re-Story Death and Choose Transformation.” Humanities​​​​, vol. 14, no. 1:4, 8 January 2025, .

 

Selected Presentations & Lectures

Conference Presentations

[Forthcoming] “Crip Queer Community and Politics of Radical Care in Andrew Joseph White’s Hell Followed With Us.” Disability Studies Forum, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 8 January 2026.

[Forthcoming] “Multimedia & Digital Materialities: The Blue Age of (Web)Comics and Fostering Multimodal Literacy.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 8 January 2026.

“I Hope We Choose Trans-Inclusive Feminism: Re-Storying The ‘Good’ Trans Character and Reclaiming Narratives of Trans Death.” 2025 Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium Conference, “Embodying Feminism: Calling In, Calling Out, Calling to Action” (Asynchronous), April 2025.

“Falling Back in Love with Trans-Inclusive Feminism: The T4t Dead Trans Character and Re-Storying Narratives of Trans Death.” 2025 Queer Studies Conference, “Cultivating Resilience, Centering Joy” (Asynchronous), March 2025.

“Rendering the Physical: Reading Clarissa’s ‘Paper Body.’” Panel: “Disembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Texts.”  York University English Graduate Association Colloquium, “Disembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Texts” (Virtual), May 2023.

“Objectifying the ‘Other’: Reading Discourses of Pleasure in the ‘Rape of Persephone.’” Queen’s University Graduate English Society’s Works In Progress Conference, 27 January 2023.

Lectures

“Embodiment & Navigating Utopian Worlds in Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot.” ĂŰĚŇ´ŤĂ˝, ENGL 273: Literature and the Fantastic, Guest Lecture, October 2025.

“‘There must be other routes into being’: Theorizing Otherwise Embodiment in Al Hess’ World Running Down and Andrew Joseph White’s Hell Followed With Us.” Queen’s University Department of English Literature & Creative Writing Special Topic Presentations Series, May 2025.

“All Boys Aren’t Blue: On Naming Hope & Choosing Radical Love.” ĂŰĚŇ´ŤĂ˝, ENGL 279: Literature and Censorship, Guest Lecture, November 2024.

“Reading Screens: The Multimodality of Electronic Literature.” University of Alberta – Augustana, AUENG 102: Critical Reading, Critical Writing, Guest Lecture, November 2023.

“Living Two Lives: The Politics of Digital Culture.” Queen’s University, GNDS 295: Comics and Politics, Guest Lecture, April 2023.

Awards and Recognition
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2025-26
R. Samuel McLaughlin Fellowship, 2024-25
Graduate Supervision
Areas of Study
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Genres and Forms
Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Graphic Literature
Literary Theory and Criticism
Popular and Genre Fiction

Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Queen's University

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Kingston ON K7L 3N6
Canada

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