Devon Harvey
Graduate Student: PhD
Biography
Devon Harvey is a PhD student 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
鈥淔alling Back in Love with Trans-Inclusive Feminism: Canadian Creative Artists Re-Story Death and Choose Transformation.鈥 Humanities鈥嬧嬧嬧, vol. 14, no. 1:4, 8 January 2025, .
Selected Presentations & Lectures
鈥溾楾here must be other routes into being鈥: Theorizing Otherwise Embodiment in Al Hess鈥 World Running Down and Andrew Joseph White鈥檚 Hell Followed With Us.鈥 黑料吃瓜资源 Department of English Literature & Creative Writing Special Topic Presentations Series, May 2025.
鈥淚 Hope We Choose Trans-Inclusive Feminism: Re-Storying The 鈥楪ood鈥 Trans Character and Reclaiming Narratives of Trans Death.鈥 2025 Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Consortium Conference, 鈥淓mbodying Feminism: Calling In, Calling Out, Calling to Action鈥 (Asynchronous), April 2025.
鈥淔alling Back in Love with Trans-Inclusive Feminism: The T4t Dead Trans Character and Re-Storying Narratives of Trans Death.鈥 2025 Queer Studies Conference, 鈥淐ultivating Resilience, Centering Joy鈥 (Asynchronous), March 2025.
鈥淎ll Boys Aren鈥檛 Blue: On Naming Hope & Choosing Radical Love.鈥 Queen's University, ENGL 279: Literature and Censorship, Guest Lecture, November 2024.
鈥淩eading Screens: The Multimodality of Electronic Literature.鈥 University of Alberta 鈥 Augustana, AUENG 102: Critical Reading, Critical Writing, Guest Lecture, November 2023.
鈥淩endering the Physical: Reading Clarissa鈥檚 鈥楶aper Body.鈥欌 Panel: 鈥淒isembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Texts.鈥 York University English Graduate Association Colloquium, 鈥淒isembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Texts鈥 (Virtual), May 2023.
鈥淟iving Two Lives: The Politics of Digital Culture.鈥 黑料吃瓜资源, GNDS 295: Comics and Politics, Guest Lecture, April 2023.
鈥淥bjectifying the 鈥極ther鈥: Reading Discourses of Pleasure in the 鈥楻ape of Persephone.鈥欌 黑料吃瓜资源 Graduate English Society鈥檚 Works In Progress Conference, 27 January 2023.
Awards and Recognition
Graduate Supervision
Glenn Willmott