David Bolt

Background

About David Bolt

I have a first class degree, an award for excellence, and an AHRC-funded doctorate from the University of Staffordshire. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have been working at Hope since 2009. I am Director of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies in the School of Social Science, where I also teach Disability Studies and SEN. I am founding Editor in Chief of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (Liverpool UP), I am editor, with my New York colleagues Elizabeth Donaldson and Julia Miele Rodas, of the book series Literary Disability Studies (Palgrave Macmillan), and editor of the book series Autocritical Disability Studies (Routledge). I have organized and co-organised events at Liverpool Hope University, University of Lancaster, Manchester Metropolitan University, and the University of Staffordshire. I am founder of the International Network of Literary & Cultural Disability Scholars and was the first Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Disability Research at the University of Lancaster. I am joint editor of the books, The Madwoman and the Blindman (Ohio State UP, 2012) and co-guest editor of the special issue Theorising Culture and Disability: Interdisciplinary Dialogues (Review of Disability Studies, U of Hawaii at Manoa). I have many international publications to my name, including journal articles, book chapters, special issues, and works of creative writing. Many of my articles have been included in The Disability Archive UK (U of Leeds) and a few have been translated into Spanish, Korean, and Dutch. I am author of The Metanarrative of Blindness (U of Michigan P, 2014), and Cultural Disability Studies in Education (Routledge, 2019); editor of Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability (Routledge, 2014), and Metanarratives of Disability (Routledge, 2021); and editor with Claire Penketh of Disability, Avoidance, and the Academy (Routledge, 2015).