David Bolt (disability studies)
David Bolt is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies and the director of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies[1] at Liverpool Hope University, where he is also Professor of Disability Studies.[2]
Academic work
Bolt joined Liverpool Hope University in August 2009 as a lecturer in disability studies. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, founder of the International Network of Literary & Cultural Disability Scholars, and was the first Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Disability Research at Lancaster University.
His published works include:
Monographs
- The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing (The University of Michigan Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-472-11906-6).
- Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide.[3] (Routledge, 2019, ISBN 978-1-138-10327-6)
Edited Collections
- The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability Eds. David Bolt, Julia Miele Rodas, & Elizabeth J. Donaldson (Ohio State University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-8142-5226-0)
- Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability Ed. David Bolt (Routledge, 2014 ISBN 9781138216051)
- Disability, Avoidance and the Academy: Challenging Resistance Eds. David Bolt & Claire Penketh (Routledge, 2016, ISBN 1138858668)
Book Series
- Literary Disability Studies Book Series Eds. David Bolt, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, & Julia Melie Rodas (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Publishing)
- A Cultural History of Disability General Eds. David Bolt, & Robert McRuer (Bloomsbury, 2019, ISBN 9781350029538)
Centre for Culture & Disability Studies
Bolt is the director of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies (CCDS; Liverpool Hope University). The work of the CCDS is fundamentally concerned with social justice: with challenging and changing the inequalities and prejudices that people who are disabled face on a daily basis.
Key areas of interest include:
- The analysis of representations of disability in all forms of cultural production (e.g., literature, film, art, advertising, television, etc.), and how these shape wider public understandings of disability.
- Curricular reform at all levels of education.
Music
In the early to mid 1980s Bolt was singer and songwriter in the pop-rock group Life (first known as Private Life). At the group’s peak Bolt worked with drummer Roy Walker, bassist Steven Burns, keyboard player Paul Gribbin, and guitarist Paul Beal. Life recorded and rehearsed at the Gaolhouse Studio in Newcastle-under-Lyme and played at large venues such as Bingley Hall in Stafford and the King’s Hall in Stoke-on-Trent. In the mid 1980s the group recorded its vinyl release ‘Take Me Higher Now’ and ‘You’re Still Running’ at Swallow Studios in Cheshire. Bolt continued writing and recording in the Secret Room Recording Studio until the mid 1990s.
References
- Centre for Culture & Disability Studies. (2012) Liverpool Hope University.
- Liverpool Hope University Staff Index. (2012)
- "Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide, 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 2019-01-18.