Kit Kavanagh-Ryan (she/they) is an early career researcher and librarian, whose research interests relate to disability in children’s and young adult literature, intersections of disability studies and librarianship, and disability advocacy through library programming. Kit holds a Master of Information Management from RMIT University (2012) and a PhD from Deakin University (2024). As a librarian, they have worked across academic, school and specialist library spaces, including the Alcohol and Drug Foundation and the Australian Emergency Management Institute.

Primarily a qualitative researcher, Kit’s work is explicitly interdisciplinary, exploring intersections of disability studies, library and information studies, and literary studies. They have been part of the School as a casual staff member since 2016.

Crip Worldbuilding, a monograph based on their PhD research, is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan.