She specializes in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century English-Canadian women’s writing in the context of the British Empire. Her publications include the monograph Growing a Race: Nellie L. McLung and the Fiction of Eugenic Feminism (2005) and the critical edition of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables (2004). Professor Devereux has recently edited two Canadian volumes for multi-volume international series, one of women’s writing on empire (2007) and one, with Kathleen Venema, of women’s correspondence in the British Empire (2005). She is currently working on a study of women and mobility in the British Empire, as well as on a study of the publishing history of Anne of Green Gables.