David Bolt

I am Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity, Programme Leader on the Disability Studies MA, and Director of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University, where I have chaired the School of Social Science Ethics Committee and Research Committee, and teach multiple aspects of disability studies to students ranging from 1st-year undergraduates to doctoral candidates. I am Founder of the International Network of Literary and Cultural Disability Scholars, and (starting with an AHRC-funded literary disability studies PhD completed 20 years ago) my work in disability studies has been recognised in education, the humanities, and the social sciences. I am Editor in Chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (Liverpool University Press/Project MUSE/Scopus), a quarterly publication founded in 2006. I am Book Series Editor of Autocritical Disability Studies (Routledge) and, with Elizabeth J. Donaldson and Julia Miele Rodas, of Literary Disability Studies (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer) and General Editor, with Robert McRuer, of the six-volume project A Cultural History of Disability (Bloomsbury). I have authored The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing (University of Michigan Press, 2014), Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide (Routledge, 2019), and Disability Duplicity and the Formative Cultural Identity Politics of Generation X (Routledge, 2024); articles in journals such as The Explicator, Textual Practice, Disability and Society, The Midwest Quarterly, Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, British Journal of Visual Impairment, New Zealand Journal of Disability Studies, Mosaic, and Journal of Further and Higher Education (some of which have been translated into Spanish); and chapters in edited books such as Dance, Disability and Law (2018), Beginning With Disability (2017), The Disability Studies Reader (2016), Short Story Criticism (2014), Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies (2012/2020), and Language, Bodies, and Health (2011). I am Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have been Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Disability Research, Lancaster University. I am editor of Changing social attitudes toward disability: Perspectives from historical, cultural, and educational studies (Routledge, 2014, translated into Korean, 2018), Metanarratives of Disability: Culture, Assumed Authority and the Normative Social Order (Routledge, 2021), and
Finding Blindness: International Constructions and Deconstructions (Routledge, 2023), and have collaborated on the editing of other projects, including Disability, Avoidance and the Academy: Challenging Resistance (Routledge, 2016), The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability (Ohio State University Press, 2012), and a special issue of the Review of Disability Studies (2010).