About Cecily Devereux Cecily Devereux is a professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her publications include Growing a Race: Nellie L. McClung and the Fiction of Eugenic Feminism (2005). Books by Cecily Devereux Salomania and the Representation of Race and Gender in Modern Erotic Dance by (author) Cecily Devereux Painted Fires by (author) Nellie L. McClung afterword by Cecily Devereux Growing a Race Nellie L. McClung and the Fiction of Eugenic Feminism by (author) Cecily Devereux