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 “ideal” 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
“All Boys Aren't Blue: On Naming Hope & Choosing Radical Love.” Queen's University, 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 (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, January 2023.
