David Bolt

'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.

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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!

News item on Liverpool Hope University website: Professor instrumental in publishing 100 book-length works around Disability Studies...

www.hope.ac.uk/news/allnews...

'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.

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

YouTube video by Centre for Culture and Disability Studies Professor David Bolt: Disability Studies Podcast

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...

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…

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

'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.

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

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...

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

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.

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 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...

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

'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.

📚 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

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...

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...

YouTube video by Centre for Culture and Disability Studies CCDS Book Launch: Dr Ella Houston's Advertising Disability

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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.

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...

An image of four stacked journal issues containing The Shandean, JLCDS, Essays in Romanticism, and The Byron journal on a beige background.

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
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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. ...

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

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.

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

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...

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/...

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. ...

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

YouTube video by Centre for Culture and Disability Studies Prof David Bolt: Disability Duplicity. Book Lunch.

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...