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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

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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Sight Loss and the Tethered Self in 21st Century Novels Authored by Bethan Jones New monograph in the Literary Disability Studies book series The Literary Disability Studies book series is edited by David Bolt, Elizabeth J. Donaldson and Julia Miele Rodas. For more: link.springer.com/series/14821
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Literary Disability Studies
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness Edited by Leslie C. Dunn and Avi Mendelson New volume in the Literary Disability Studies book series The Literary Disability Studies book series is edited by David Bolt, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, and Julia Miele Rodas. For more: link.springer.com/series/14821
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Literary Disability Studies
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies Volume 20 Issue 3 Special Issue: Space for Interpretation - Reclaiming Disabled Power in Narratives of Belief Guest Editors: Naomi Lawson Jacobs, Krysia Emily Waldock, and Emma Swai muse.jhu.edu/issue/57434
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Barbellion Prize celebrates fiction and non-fiction that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability. It is a cross-genre award for literature published in the English language. Information about eligibility can be found: barbellionprize.org
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The Barbellion Prize | A prize recognising literary representation of chronically disabled lives.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Most read article | JLCDS 'Difficult Patients, Difficult Poems: Madness and the Rhetorics of Difficulty' by @drewmcew.bsky.social. ➡️ Read it online: bit.ly/JLCDS-McEwan #disabilitystudies @davidbolt13.bsky.social @disstudies.bsky.social @otdsnetwork.bsky.social
The graphic for JLCDS features the following text: '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. The background is a silver and white textured image of curved lines with a red decorative rectangle banner at the bottom.
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Great news about a couple of monographs in the Autocritical Disability Studies Series.. Ella Houston's Adverting Disability and Yoon-Joo Lee's Stories on Disability Through Our Voices: Born This Way will be republished in softback editions on the 22nd of June: www.routledge.com/Autocritical...
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Autocritical Disability Studies - Book Series - Routledge & CRC Press
Routledge & CRC Press Series: This new book series represents both a contribution to, and a departure from, the academic field of critical disability studies. According to some concerns abou
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
#DisabilityStudiesAtHope #MoreThanNeeds #OxfordResearchEncyclopediaOfDisabilityStudies As Editor-in-Chief, I am pleased to announce that the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies now has 65 articles live, some of which are open access: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies
Abstract. Disability can be thought of as the most universal of all identities. Whatever our gender, race, religion, nationality, class, or sexuality, we m
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Interrogating the ethics of visual methods: A critical disability studies critique of photovoice by Danielle Kohfeldt, David Bolt, and Robert Majzler is now freely available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.me...
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies: Now Live This encyclopedia provides current, peer-reviewed, trustworthy articles. It opens with 60 extended articles, including 5 that are Open Access. Access the content here: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies
Abstract. Disability can be thought of as the most universal of all identities. Whatever our gender, race, religion, nationality, class, or sexuality, we m
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New Beginnings in Culture and Disability Studies: A Multiple Launch Event 5 June, 2026, Liverpool Hope University 10am-4.30pm, EDEN Arbour Room, EDEN Building, Childwall Campus To attend the free event it is necessary to book via our online store: store.hope.ac.uk/product-cata...
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New Beginnings in Culture and Disability Studies: A Multiple Launch Event | Liverpool Hope University Online Store
Host: Centre for Culture and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope UniversityVenue: EDEN Arbour Room/Lounge, EDEN Building, Childwall Campus, L16 9JDDate: 5th
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Dr Emma Swai has published 'Restricted More as a Daughter: The Interaction between Gender and Disability in the Gospel of Luke'. The open access article is a contribution to the Journal of the European Society of Women in Theological Research: poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Disability and the Arts is a new playlist on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Disability and the Arts - YouTube
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Changing Social Attitudes to Blindness is a new playlist on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Changing Social Attitudes to Blindness - YouTube
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Changing Social Attitudes to Dwarfism is a new playlist on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Changing Social Attitudes to Dwarfism - YouTube
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Changing Social Attitudes to Learning Disability is a new playlist on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Changing Social Attitudes to Learning Disability - YouTube
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Changing Social Attitudes to Mental Health is a new playlist on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Changing Social Attitudes to Mental Health - YouTube
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
We now have an Autocritical Disability Studies playlist on the CCDS YouTube channel, which gives free access to some of the work done in the book series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KXK...
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The Metanarrative of Dwarfism
YouTube video by Erin Pritchard
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Most Read in JLCDS | 'Noor Einy Movie: Portraying Egyptian Blind Women as Helpless, Dependent, and Incapable Mothers' by Ibrahim Emara. ➡️ Read it online: bit.ly/JLCDS-Emara @davidbolt13.bsky.social @riacheyne.bsky.social
'Instrumental in the interdisciplinarity of literary studies, cultural studies and disability studies' is 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. The background is a silver and white textured image of curved lines with a red decorative rectangle banner at the bottom.
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
LUP have made an issue of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies free to access. I am proud to say that JLCDS is in its 20th volume, so I am sure you will enjoy reading this excellent general issue: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/jlcds/17/1 @livunipress.bsky.social
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse Edited by David Bolt, now available in hardback, softback, and electronic formats. Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25. For more information and to order a copy: 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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Dr Emma Swai @emmajoyswai.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
So it "finally" arrived through my door. I am actually really proud of this chapter, purely because I wanted to open up on the fact that experience changes exegetes (even if we like to pretend it doesn't). Thank you @davidbolt13.bsky.social for giving me a soap box to stand on!
Book cover for Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse, edited by David Bolt. The book has a wide purple stripe across the bottom, with the text overlaid in white. The top section of the book is black with a splattered pattern breaking up the black. Inside the splatter are random blue marks on fuzzy light red lined paper. 

The background is brown/kraft cardboard. A snapshot of chapter 8. Entitled A New Testament - Changing Positionality,Changing Interpretation. Emma Swai.
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
News item on Liverpool Hope University website: Professor instrumental in publishing 100 book-length works around Disability Studies... www.hope.ac.uk/news/allnews...
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Ahead of #DisabilityHistoryMonth in the UK, browse the latest articles from JLCDS, including the latest from @helenevans.bsky.social: 'Crossing the Water: Musings on Inclusion and Higher Education' Read it online: bit.ly/JLCDS-Evans @davidbolt13.bsky.social
'Instrumental in the interdisciplinarity of literary studies, cultural studies and disability studies' is 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. The background is a silver and white textured image of curved lines with a red decorative rectangle banner at the bottom.
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Damien Maguire, Associate Dean of External Engagement, interviews Professor David Bolt Professor at Liverpool Hope University. One focus of the conversation is the Disability Studies MA launched in 2013 and enrolling students in January and September. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcaI...
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Professor David Bolt: Disability Studies Podcast
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
To celebrate #DisabilityHistoryMonth, browse the LUP reading list and enjoy free access to selected disability studies journal articles across the next month. bit.ly/DisHisMonth25 📖 @davidbolt13.bsky.social
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Celebrating Disability History Month 2025
To mark Disability History Month in the UK, we’ve collated a reading list from our books and journals that engage with ideas and narratives of disability, particularly our leading journal, Th…
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse Now available to pre-order, new book edited by David Bolt, including an afterword by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Georgina Kleege. Valid until the end of the year, the 30% Routledge discount code is: ADC25
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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 · 07/10/2025
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 · 16/09/2025
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...
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Disability Studies (MA)
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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... For 20% discount use this code: 25AFLY3
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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 · 03/09/2025
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
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Project MUSE - Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies-Volume 19, Issue 3, 2025
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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 · 22/07/2025
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... @drerinpritchard.bsky.social @emmajoyswai.bsky.social @franzerva.bsky.social
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Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse
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Fran Zerva @franzerva.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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 · 03/07/2025
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
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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 · 21/06/2025
📚 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
'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 itself to the left.
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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...
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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 · 29/05/2025
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...
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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 · 30/04/2025
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...
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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 · 28/04/2025
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
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Project MUSE - Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies-Volume 19, Issue 2, 2025
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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
A grey/white curved line background with a peach translucent banner overlaid with red text reading 'Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies' volume 19,2. To the left is an image of the journal cover in bright red.
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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...
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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 · 25/02/2025
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
An image of four stacked journal issues containing The Shandean, JLCDS, Essays in Romanticism, and The Byron journal on a beige background.
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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
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Literary Disability Studies
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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 · 29/01/2025
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/...
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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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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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
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Literary Disability Studies
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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...
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Prof David Bolt: Disability Duplicity. Book Lunch.
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David Bolt @davidbolt13.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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
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Cultural Histories
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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...
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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 · 03/12/2024
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
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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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