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David Bolt
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Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity at Liverpool Hope University. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. #MoreThanNeeds .. more

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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 at Liverpool Hope University, where he is also Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity. .. more

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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 4d
I am delighted to be under contract to write a second edition of my 2019 book, Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide. #MoreThanNeeds
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 25d
Disability Studies MA

Programme Leader, Prof David Bolt

Modules included are: Critical Disability Theory; Disability and Professional Practice; Modelling Disability; Disability and Disciplines; Research Methods; and a Dissertation.

For information: www.hope.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Disability Studies (MA)
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Sep 4
The Playground Model of Disability: Dis/honesty Tropes in Contemporary British Sociocultural Representation

New book by David Bolt – available with introductory discount

For more information: www.routledge.com/The-Playgrou...

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The Playground Model of Disability: Dis/honesty Tropes in Contemporary British Sociocultural Representation
More than being counter to what we must surely endeavour to consider the status quo of honesty, not to mention the pursuit of truth that should still be fundamental in academia and education more broa...
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Sep 3
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

Volume 19 Issue 3

Special Issue: Invitation to Dance: Performing Disability Politics through the Dancing Body

Guest Editors: Stefan Sunandan Honisch and Gili Hammer

The special issue can be accessed as a whole here:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55464
Project MUSE - Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies-Volume 19, Issue 3, 2025
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Aug 14
Most read in JLCDS this week 📚
'Mad Mothering: Learning From the Intersections of Madness, Mothering, and Disability' by Patty Douglas, Penny Fogg, @profkrc.bsky.social and @ryansara.bsky.social.
Find it on the LUP website: bit.ly/JLCDS-Mad @davidbolt13.bsky.social
'Instrumental in the interdisciplinarity of literary studies, cultural studies and disability studies' written in black text to the right, with the red and peach cover of The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies itself placed to the left.
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Jul 22
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse

New book edited by David Bolt, with an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Sta...

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Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
In the disability community, which can have multiple meanings in itself, we often experience poignant moments in sociocultural discourse. Our pathways to knowledge and understanding of identity are de...
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Jul 3
Learning with Learning Disability: What Learning Disability Can Teach Us About Being Human by Owen Barden is now available to pre-order here: www.routledge.com/Learning-wit... @owenbarden.bsky.social
Learning with Learning Disability: What Learning Disability Can Teach Us About Being Human
This book uses the concept of “learning disability” to explore what it means to be human. It argues that we need to learn with rather than from or about learning disability. This crucial distinction m...
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Jun 21
📚 Most read in the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies this week:
'Interdisciplinarity and Stages in a Process of Engagement with Theatre Practice and Disability' by Nina Michelle Worthington @canterburyccuni.bsky.social‬
Read it #OA: bit.ly/Worthington-JLCDS @davidbolt13.bsky.social‬
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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · May 31
Brilliant afternoon yesterday celebrating 15 years of #CCDS with powerful talks from some very important disability studies figures from Liverpool Hope! Thank you for all that you for disability studies - you are the reason we keep fighting ✊ #KnowledgeNotNeeds
An image of JLCDS issues and three academic books (Performing Disability in Early Modern British Drama, Advertising Disability, and Finding Blindness) distributed across a table.
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · May 30
The Playground Model of Disability shows how dis/honesty tropes serve the normative social order; how the playground model can be used to critique instances in which disablement emanates from interactions more than institutions, people more than places: www.routledge.com/The-Playgrou...
The Playground Model of Disability: Dis/honesty Tropes in Contemporary British Sociocultural Representation
More than being counter to what we must surely endeavour to consider the status quo of honesty, not to mention the pursuit of truth that should still be fundamental in academia and education more broa...
www.routledge.com

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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · May 29
On 28 June, the CCDS launched Dr Ella Houston's monograph Advertising Disability. The book is part of the Autocritical Disability Studies series edited by Prof David Bolt. In addition, there is a response by Dr Catalin Brylla. The launch can now be viewed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOvd...
CCDS Book Launch: Dr Ella Houston's Advertising Disability
YouTube video by Centre for Culture and Disability Studies
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Apr 30
New Book in the Autocritical Disability Studies Series -
Stories on Disability Through our Voices: Born This Way by Yoon Joon Lee: www.routledge.com/Stories-on-D...
Stories on Disability Through our Voices: Born This Way
This book integrates the discipline of disability studies with the lived experiences of women with visible disabilities. It seeks to foreground the silenced voices of Korean and Korean American women ...
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Apr 28
The new issue of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability studies (19.2, 2025) is now available on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54727
Project MUSE - Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies-Volume 19, Issue 2, 2025
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Apr 24
NEW ISSUE | JLCDS Vol 19.2 includes work on design, ecology, and feminist disability studies, alongside portrayals of voice and mental disability, and disability activism on social media @helenhuang.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social @davidbolt13.bsky.social 🔗Read it online: bit.ly/JLCDS19-2
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Mar 6
As the CCDS has recently passed its 15th anniversary, not to mention the 60th issue of JLCDS and the 15th book in the Literary Disability Studies series, an event will be hosted at Hope Park, 1.30-4.30, 30th May, full details of which can be found: store.hope.ac.uk/product-cata...
CCDS: 15th Anniversary Symposium | Liverpool Hope University Online Store
Centre for Culture and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University1.30-4.30, 30th May, 2025Hope Park, Conference Seminar Room 1 and 2
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Feb 25
Interested in Literary Studies? Read free issues of The Shandean, JLCDS, Essays in Romanticism and The Byron Journal via the LUP website: bit.ly/FREE-ISSUES-LUP
@lsternetrust.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @davidbolt13.bsky.social @profdanielcook.bsky.social‬ @asecsoffice.bsky.social
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Feb 4
New Work in Literary Disability Studies

Literary Neurodiversity Studies: Current and Future Directions

Bradley J. Irish

This is the 16th title in the series edited by David Bolt, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, and Julia Miele Rodas.

For more on the series: link.springer.com/series/14821
Literary Disability Studies
Literary Disability Studies is the first book series dedicated to the exploration of literature and literary topics from a disability studies perspective. ...
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Jan 29
The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies has published its 60th issue.

Published by Liverpool University Press, an open access article from the issue can be found here:

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Interdisciplinarity and Stages in a Process of Engagement with Theatre Practice and Disability | Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies
Navigating recent shifts in diversity agenda in the theatre industry and ensuring continued moves towards the accurate representation, equal participation, and valued contribution of disabled people o...
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Jan 28
JLCDS 19.1 includes work on navigating recent shifts in diversity agenda in the theatre industry, alongside work on reconceptualizing blindness through the political/relational model. Browse: bit.ly/JLCDS19-1 @davidbolt13.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @frankmondelli.bsky.social
The latest issue of JLCDS (19.1) with its red cover and black serif font on a white/grey background of indentations and red thin stripes.
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Jan 8
Literary Disability Studies book series

We are pleased to announce publication of the 15th volume…

Neo-Victorian Cultural Collections of Disability: Interdisciplinary Navigations by Louise Logan-Smith

For more information about this book and the series: link.springer.com/series/14821
Literary Disability Studies
Literary Disability Studies is the first book series dedicated to the exploration of literature and literary topics from a disability studies perspective. ...
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Dec 13
David Bolt, Book Launch: Disability Duplicity and the Formative Cultural Identity Politics of Generation X. Introduced by Prof Claire Penketh with a guest response by Prof Robert McRuer. #MoreThanNeeds

This is available on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJF2...
Prof David Bolt: Disability Duplicity. Book Lunch.
YouTube video by Centre for Culture and Disability Studies
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Dec 11
The panel Cultural Histories, which was part of the Disability Histories: Multiple Engagement Event held by the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies in 7 February 2024, is now available on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz_6... #MoreThanNeeds @drerinpritchard.bsky.social
Cultural Histories
YouTube video by Centre for Culture and Disability Studies
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Dec 10
To celebrate our 125th anniversary, @clarehooper.bsky.social reflected on @davidbolt13.bsky.social's contribution to the field of Disability Studies, alongside many other achievements in his academic career. Read more here ⬇️
liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2024/12/02/i...
In Praise of… David Bolt
To celebrate our 125th anniversary this year, we have been taking the opportunity to highlight and thank a selection of key figures in LUP’s recent history. Our final post in this series has been w…
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · Dec 3
LUP is celebrating its 125th anniversary. I am profoundly moved by the comments of Clare Hooper, Julia Miele Rodas, Tanya Titchkosky, Robert McRuer, Rod Michalko, Owen Barden, Ella Houston, Kay Martin, and Lennard J. Davis: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2024/12/02/i... @livunipress.bsky.social
In Praise of… David Bolt
To celebrate our 125th anniversary this year, we have been taking the opportunity to highlight and thank a selection of key figures in LUP’s recent history. Our final post in this series has been w…
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