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

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 (Routledge, 2019, ISBN 978-1-138-10327-6)
 * Disability Duplicity and the Formative Cultural Politics of Generation X'' (Routledge, 2023, ISBN 9781032553979)

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)
 * Metanarratives of Disability: Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order Ed. David Bolt (Routledge, 2021, ISBN 9780367523190)
 * Finding Blindness: International Constructions and Deconstructions Ed. David Bolt (Routledge, 2022, ISBN 9781032229928)

Book Series

 * Literary Disability Studies Book Series Eds. David Bolt, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, & Julia Melie Rodas (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Publishing)
 * 1) Friederich, Patricia. The Literary and Linguistic Construction of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: No Ordinary Doubt. (2015, New York: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; ISBN 9781349576388)
 * 2) Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives Eds. Chris Foss, Jonathan W. Gray, & Zach Whalen (2016, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; ISBN 9781137501110)
 * 3) Disabling Romanticism: Body, Mind, and Text Ed. Michael Bradshaw (2016, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; ISBN 978-1-137-46064-6)
 * 4) Thompson, Hannah. Reviewing Blindness in French Fiction, 1789-2013. (2017, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; ISBN 978-1-137-43511-8)
 * 5) Tankard, Alex. Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature: Invalid Lives. (2018, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; ISBN 978-3-319-71446-2)
 * 6) Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health. Ed. Elizabeth J. Donaldson (2018, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; ISBN 978-3-319-92666-7)
 * 7) Row-Heyveld, Lindsey. Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama. (2018, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; ISBN 978-3-319-92135-8)
 * 8) Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama Ed. Leslie C. Dunn (2020, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; ISBN 978-3-030-57208-2)
 * 9) Grubgeld, Elizabeth. Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland. (2020, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; ISBN 978-3-030-37246-0)
 * 10) Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations and the Semiotics of "Loss". Eds. Erik Grayson and Maren Scheurer (2021, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; ISBN 978-3-030-74377-2)
 * 11) Healey, Devon. Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative. (2021, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; ISBN 978-3-030-80811-2)
 * 12) Introna, Arianna. Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing: Crip Enchantments. (2022, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; ISBN 978-3-030-99273-6)
 * 13) Haukaas, Anelise. Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives. (2024, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; ISBN 978-3-031-44482-1)
 * 14) Placing Disability: Personal Essays of Embodied Geography. Eds. Susannah B. Mintz & Gregory Fraser (2024, Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; ISBN 978-3-031-41219-6)


 * A Cultural History of Disability General Eds. David Bolt, & Robert McRuer (2019, Bloomsbury, ISBN 9781350029538)
 * 1) A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity, Volume 1. Ed. Christian Laes (2020, Bloomsbury Academic; ISBN 9781350028555)
 * 2) A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages, Volume 2. Eds. Jonathan Hsy, Tory V. Pearman & Joshua R. Eyler (2020, Bloomsbury Academic; ISBN 9781350028746)
 * 3) A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance, Volume 3. Eds. Susan Anderson & Liam Haydon (2020, Bloomsbury Academic; ISBN 9781350028906)
 * 4) A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century, Volume 4. Eds. D. Christopher Gabbard & Susannah B. Mintz (2020, Bloomsbury Academic; ISBN 9781350028944)
 * 5) A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 5. Eds. Joyce L. Huff & Martha Stoddard Holmes (2020, Bloomsbury Academic; ISBN 9781350029101)
 * 6) A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age, Volume 6. Eds. David T. Mitchell & Sharon L. Snyder (2020, Bloomsbury Academic; ISBN 9781350029323)


 * Autocritical Disability Studies Book Series. Ed. David Bolt (Routledge)
 * 1) Metanarratives of Disability: Culture, Assumed Authority and the Normative Social Order. Ed. David Bolt (2021, Routledge; ISBN 9780367523190)
 * 2) Finding Blindness: International Constructions and Deconstructions. Ed. David Bolt (2022, Routledge; ISBN 9781032229928)
 * 3) Pritchard, Erin. Midgetism: The Exploitation and Discrimination of People with Dwarfism (2023, Routledge; ISBN 9781032465944)
 * 4) Bolt, David. Disability Duplicity and the Formative Cultural Identity Politics of Generation X. (2023, Routledge; ISBN 9781032553979)
 * 5) Houston, Ella. Advertising Disability. (2024, Routledge; ISBN 9781003433415)

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 disabled people 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.

The CCDS events are internationally recognised for bringing together a mix of Early Career Researchers and some of the most eminent professors in the field. The seminars are often filmed. People can now subscribe to this channel to access various videos.

Creative writing
In the early 21st century, Bolt was involved in creative writing as a tutor at Newcastle Under Lyme College and as a writer of poetry and short stories. His short stories appeared in Breath and Shadow, the literary magazine of the organization Ability Maine. Short stories include, "Spangles", "The Currency of Beauty", and "The Silent Treatment". "The Silent Treatment" was anthologized in the book Dozen: The Best of Breath and Shadow (2016, CreateSpace; ISBN 9781541266407).