Devon Harvey is a first-year PhD student in the Department of English Language and Literature at Queen's University. Their research brings together comics and sequential art, cultural and fandom studies, and digital/online literature to examine how narratives of sexual violence are represented, adopted, adapted, and re-storied in and through popular literature and culture.
Comics and Sequential Art; Popular and Genre Fiction; Fantasy; Electronic and Digital Literature; New Media; Adaptation; Fan Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Sexual and Reproductive Justice; Disability Studies.
Selected Presentations & Lectures
“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.
“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.
