Devon Healey, Phd Email & Phone Number

Devon Healey works in the area of critical disability studies, theatre and drama as well as in education. All of her work is grounded in her experience as a blind woman guided by a desire to, as Paul Gilroy (2000) says, “re-educate the sensorium.” She is an Assistant Professor of Disability Studies in the Department of Social Justice Education at OISE at the University of Toronto. Devon is a classically trained actor and holds a PhD in Disability Studies from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. The aim of her work is to show how blindness specifically and disability more broadly can be understood as offering an alternate form of perception and thus, is a valuable and creative way of experiencing and knowing the world. Making use of theatre and drama studies together with critical disability studies and phenomenology, Devon engages in an exploration of how, as Rod Michalko (2011) puts it, “we have come to say what we say and do what we do in relation to blindness and disability.” Her forthcoming book, "Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative" from Palgrave Macmillan will be released in late 2021. She is currently working on a play with Outside the March titled, "Rainbow on Mars". Devon is a co-founder of, Peripheral Theatre. Her publications include, “Eyeing the pedagogy of trouble: The Cultural documentation of the problem subject,” The Canadian Journal of Disability studies, as well as a paper co-written with Drs. Tanya Titchkosky and Rod Michalko titled, “Understanding blindness simulation and the culture of sight,” the international Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Hope University, Liverpool, UK. Twitter and Instagram: @devonkhealey