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
“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
[Upcoming] “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.
[Upcoming] “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.
“All Boys Aren’t Blue: On Naming Hope & Choosing Radical Love.” ֱ, 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.
“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.
“Living Two Lives: The Politics of Digital Culture.” Queen’s University, GNDS 295: Comics and Politics, Guest Lecture, April 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.
