David Bolt
@davidbolt13.bsky.social
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
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
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
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...
www.routledge.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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
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
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
October 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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
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...
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)
www.hope.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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...
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...
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
New book by David Bolt – available with introductory discount
For more information: www.routledge.com/The-Playgrou...
For 20% discount use this code: 25AFLY3
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
September 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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
New book by David Bolt – available with introductory discount
For more information: www.routledge.com/The-Playgrou...
For 20% discount use this code: 25AFLY3
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
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
muse.jhu.edu
September 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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
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
Reposted by David Bolt
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
'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
August 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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
'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
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
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
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...
www.routledge.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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
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
Reposted by David Bolt
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
May 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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
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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July 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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
Reposted by David Bolt
📚 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
'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
June 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
📚 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
'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
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
May 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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...
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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May 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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...
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 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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April 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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 by Yoon Joon Lee: www.routledge.com/Stories-on-D...
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
muse.jhu.edu
April 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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
Reposted by David Bolt
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
April 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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
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
store.hope.ac.uk
March 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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...
Reposted by David Bolt
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
@lsternetrust.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @davidbolt13.bsky.social @profdanielcook.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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
@lsternetrust.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @davidbolt13.bsky.social @profdanielcook.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social
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 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. ...
link.springer.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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 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
Reposted by David Bolt
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
January 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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 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/...
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...
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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/...
Published by Liverpool University Press, an open access article from the issue can be found here:
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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
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. ...
link.springer.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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
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
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...
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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December 13, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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...
This is available on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJF2...
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
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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
Reposted by David Bolt
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...
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…
liverpooluniversitypress.blog
December 10, 2024 at 10:19 AM
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...
liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2024/12/02/i...
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…
liverpooluniversitypress.blog
December 3, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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