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
âFalling Back in Love with Trans-Inclusive Feminism: Canadian Creative Artists Re-Story Death and Choose Transformation.â Humanitiesââââ, vol. 14, no. 1:4, 8 January 2025, .
Selected Presentations & Lectures
ââThere must be other routes into beingâ: Theorizing Otherwise Embodiment in Al Hessâ World Running Down and Andrew Joseph Whiteâs Hell Followed With Us.â Queenâs University Department of English Literature & Creative Writing Special Topic Presentations Series, May 2025.
âI Hope We Choose Trans-Inclusive Feminism: Re-Storying The âGoodâ Trans Character and Reclaiming Narratives of Trans Death.â 2025 Womenâs and Gender Studies Consortium Conference, âEmbodying Feminism: Calling In, Calling Out, Calling to Actionâ (Asynchronous), April 2025.
âFalling Back in Love with Trans-Inclusive Feminism: The T4t Dead Trans Character and Re-Storying Narratives of Trans Death.â 2025 Queer Studies Conference, âCultivating Resilience, Centering Joyâ (Asynchronous), March 2025.
âAll Boys Arenât Blue: On Naming Hope & Choosing Radical Love.â ĂŰĚŇ´ŤĂ˝, ENGL 279: Literature and Censorship, Guest Lecture, November 2024.
âReading Screens: The Multimodality of Electronic Literature.â University of Alberta â Augustana, AUENG 102: Critical Reading, Critical Writing, Guest Lecture, November 2023.
âRendering the Physical: Reading Clarissaâs âPaper Body.ââ Panel: âDisembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Texts.â York University English Graduate Association Colloquium, âDisembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Textsâ (Virtual), May 2023.
âLiving Two Lives: The Politics of Digital Culture.â Queenâs University, GNDS 295: Comics and Politics, Guest Lecture, April 2023.
âObjectifying the âOtherâ: Reading Discourses of Pleasure in the âRape of Persephone.ââ Queenâs University Graduate English Societyâs Works In Progress Conference, 27 January 2023.