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.