Miss Sophie Harris

Miss Sophie Harris


I am a PhD Candidate and Humanities Studentship recipient. I graduated with a BA (Hons) in American and Canadian Studies from the University of Birmingham in 2021 before completing an MA as a recipient of the Christine and Ian Bolt Scholarship at the University of Kent in 2022. I am currently in post as the co-director of the New Voices in Postcolonial Studies Network (NVPoco) until August 2025.

My research interests primarily lie in Queer and Indigenous Studies. I am also interested in and engage with American Culture and Studies broadly, with a keen interest in New York poetry, Postcolonial Studies, Disability and Neurodiversity Narratives and Studies, and Creative Writing.

Outside of academia, I am a published and active poet writing and performing nationally and internationally, typically, under the pen name "Soph Kay," or previously as "Sophie Kay". 

You can find my poetry online in the e-mag Sonder Series (2023), and in print in the anthologies Depression is What Really Killed the Dinosaurs (2022), Poetry Diary (2022), An Island Under Water (2024), and Capitalism is a Death Cult (2025). 


My PhD thesis, tentatively titled “Indigenous Peoples Make Total Conquest Impossible”: Indigiqueer Experience in Physical and Digital Spaces in Contemporary Queer Indigenous Writing from 2017-2024 looks at a range of primary texts, across genres and authors, by Indigiqueer writers living and writing in the nation state of Canada. 


In brief

Research areas

Queer, Indigenous, Erotic, Marginality, Digital Spaces and Decolonisation