David Bolt

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Dr. David Bolt is the founding editor of The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (formally known as the Journal of Literary Disability)[1] and the Director of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies,[2] housed in the Graduate School, Faculty of Education at Liverpool Hope University, where he is also a Lecturer in Disability Studies.[3]

Academic work

Dr. Bolt joined Liverpool Hope University in August 2009 as a Lecturer in Disability Studies. In his role of Director of the CCDS at Liverpool Hope University, Dr. Bolt edits JLCDS. He is 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. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book, The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability (Ohio State University Press, 2012).[4] He is peer reviewer for The Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness and Disability & Society. He has taught in the English departments of Stoke-on-Trent College and the University of Staffordshire. At the latter he holds a Ph.D. in literary studies that was funded by the AHRB, and a B.A. with first-class honours that earned him the Andrew Poynton Memorial Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Literary Studies. Focusing on literary disability, especially nineteenth and twentieth-century representations of people with a visual impairment, Dr. Bolt has appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme You and Yours and has written more than a dozen articles for Midwest Quarterly, Textual Practice, The Explicator, Disability & Society, The Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, The British Journal of Visual Impairment, The Journal of Further and Higher Education and The New Zealand Journal of Disability Studies. Most of these articles have been included in The Disability Archive UK and several have been translated into Spanish for publication in Entre dos mundos: Revista de traducción sobre discapacidad visual. In addition, he has written a series of short stories for Breath & Shadow: ROSC’s Journal of Literature and Disability Culture, hundreds of his lyrics have been set to music and performed at numerous venues in the U.K., and his poetry has appeared in ten minor anthologies.He has organized and co-organised events at Liverpool Hope University, Lancaster University, Manchester Metropolitan University, and the University of Staffordshire.[5]

The Centre for Culture & Disability Studies

Dr. Bolt is the Director, and Dr. Ria Cheyne is the Deputy Director of the CCDS. The CCDS is housed in the Graduate School, Faculty of Education, at Liverpool Hope University. Like much work in the field of Disability Studies, the work of CCDS is fundamentally concerned with social justice: with challenging and changing the inequalities and prejudices that people who are disabled face on a daily basis. Though there are other centres for Disability Studies in the UK, the CCDS is unique in its focus on culture as the means by which prejudices around disability are circulated and perpetuated.

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. Disability remains marginalized in comparison to issues of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality, so we work to promote the inclusion of disability issues and disabled peoples’ voices across the curriculum.

The mission of the CCDS is to address the avoidance of informed discussions about disability in all educational settings by promoting and facilitating a culture of critical engagement with disability, the broader aim being to deepen understandings of disability and thus improve attitudes and actions toward people who have impairments. The CCDS holds free monthly seminars that are open to the public; produces monthly newsletters; publishes three issues of JLCDS per year; awards an annual prize, The CCDS Outstanding Achievement Award, to an undergraduate who produces outstanding research that relates to the focus of the CCDS; hosts international conferences; and hosts the International Network of Literary & Cultural Disability Scholars through Facebook and Twitter.[6]

The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies


The Journal of Literary Disability was founded by the editor Dr. David Bolt in 2006. It was launched at the Inaugural Conference of the Cultural Disability Studies Research Network, hosted by Liverpool John Moores University in 2007. In 2009 the publication moved to Liverpool University Press under the new name Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. It expanded to three issues per year and print as well as online formats. It was selected for the Project MUSE collection and found an institutional base in the Centre for Disability Research (CeDr), Lancaster University. It is now edited, on a permanent basis, in The Centre for Culture and Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University.

JLCDS Catalogue
1.1 - Disability and/as Poetry, guest edited by Jim Ferris, 2007.[7]
1.2 - Disability and the Dialectic of Dependency, guest edited by Michael Davidson, 2007.[8]
2.1 - The Representation of Cognitive Impairment, guest edited by Lucy Burke, 2008.[9]
3.1 - General issue, 2009[10]
3.2 - Blindness and Literature, guest edited by Georgina Kleege, 2009.[11]
3.3- Deleuze, Disability, and Difference, guest edited by Petra Kuppers and James Overboe, 2009.[12]
4.1 - General issue, 2010.[13]
4.2 - Ablenationalism and the Geo-Politics of Disability, guest edited by Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell, 2010.[14]
4.3 - Disabling Postcolonislism: Global Disability Cultures and Democratic Criticism, guest edited by Clare Barker and Stuart Murray, 2010.[15]
5.1 - General issue, 2011.[16]
5.2 - Representing Disability and Emotion, guest edited by Elizabeth J. Donaldson and Catherine Prendergast, 2011.[17]
5.3 - Disability and Life Writing, edited by G. Thomas Couser, 2011.[18]
6.1 - General issue, 2012.[19]
6.2 - Popular Genres and Disability Representation, guest edited by Ria Cheyne, 2012.[20]

Publications

Bolt, David. “The Blindman in the Classic: Feminisms, Ocularcentrism, and Jane Eyre.” The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability. Ed. David Bolt, Julia Miele Rodas, and Elizabeth J. Donaldson. Ohio: Ohio State UP, 2012.[21]
---. ‘Social Encounters, Cultural Representation, and Critical Avoidance', Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies. Ed. Nick Watson, Carol Thomas and Alan Roulstone. London: Routledge, 2012. 287-97.[22]
---. ‘Community, Controversy, and Compromise: The Language of Visual Impairment’. Language, Bodies, and Health. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2011. 15-36.[23]
---. ‘The Starfish Paradigm: Impairment, Disability, and characterisation in Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh.”’ Midwest Quarterly 52.1 (2010): 11-30.[24] This has also been included on the Disability Archive UK.
---. ‘The Blindman in the Classic: Feminisms and Ocularcentrism in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.’ Textual Practice 22.2 (2008): 269-89.[25]
---. ‘Saramago’s Blindness: Humans or Animals?’ The Explicator, fall, 66.1, pp. 44–47. 2007.[26] This has also been included on the Disability Archive UK.
---. ‘Osborne’s Look Back in Anger: Looking Back at Oedipus.’ The Explicator, 65, 4, pp. 237–40. 2007[27]
---. Introduction. Disability and/as Poetry. Ed. Jim Ferris. Spec. Issue of Journal of Literary Disability 1.1, pp. i-vi. 2007[28]
---. (With Michael Davidson.) Journal of Literary Disability: Disability and the Dialectic of Dependency, 1, 2. 2000[29]
---. ‘Beneficial Blindness: Literary Representation and the So-Called Positive Stereotyping of People with Impaired Vision.’ New Zealand Journal of Disability Studies, 12, pp. 80–100. 2006.[30] This has also been included on Disability Archive UK.
---. ‘Looking Back at Literature: A Critical Reading of the Unseen Stare in Depictions of People with Impaired Vision.’ Disability & Society, December, 20, 7, pp. 735–747. 2005.[31] This has also been included on the Disability Archive UK.
---. ‘Caught in the Chasm: Literary Representation and Suicide among People with Impaired Vision.’ British Journal of Visual Impairment, September, 23, 3, pp. 117–121. 2005.[32] This has also been included on the Disability Archive UK.
---. ‘From Blindness to Visual Impairment: Terminological Typology and the Social Model of Disability.’ Disability & Society, August, 20, 5, pp. 539–552. 2005.[33] This has also been included on the Disability Archive UK.
---. ‘Castrating Depictions of Visual Impairment: The Literary Backdrop to Eugenics.’ Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, March, 99, 3, pp. 141–50. 2005.[34] This is also included on the Disability Archive UK.
---. ‘Disability and the Rhetoric of Inclusive Higher Education’. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 28, 4, pp. 353–358. 2004.[35] This is also included on the Disability Archieve UK.
---. ‘Terminology and the Psychosocial Burden of Blindness.’ British Journal of Visual Impairment, 22, 2, pp. 52–4. 2004.[36] This is also included on the Disability Archive UK.
---. ‘The Terminology Debate Continues.’ Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 98, 3, pp. 133–4. 2004.[37] This is also available on the Disability Archive UK.
---. ‘Blindness and the Problems of Terminology.’ Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 97, 9, pp. 519–20. 2003.[38] This is also included on the Disability Archive UK.

Edited works

Bolt, David, Dan Goodley, Lucy Burke, Rebecca Lawthom, and Rebecca Mallett (eds). ‘Theorising Culture and Disability: Interdisciplinary Dialogues,’ Review of Disability Studies Special Forum, 2009.
Bolt, David, Julia Miele Rodas, and Elizabeth J. Donaldson (eds). The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability. Ohio: Ohio State UP, 2012.[39]

Translated Articles

Bolt, D. ‘De “ceguera” a “discapacidad visual”: la tipologίa terminolόgica y el modelo social de la discapacidad, April, 33, pp. 65–76. 2007.
---. ‘Atrapados en el abismo: representación literaria y suicidio en personas con discapacidad visual.’ Entre dos mundos: Revista de traducción sobre discapacidad visual, December, 29, pp. 51–7. 2005.
---. ‘Terminologia y la Carga Psicosocial de la Ceguera.’ Entre dos mundos: Revista de traducción sobre discapacidad visual, April, 27, pp. 47–50. 2005.

Conference Papers

Bolt, David. ‘Tackling Avoidance in the Academy’ Liverpool Hope University Foundation Hour. 2 May, Liverpool Hope University, 2012.
---.Introduction. Transformative Difference: Disability, Culture and the Academy, 7 – 8 September. Liverpool Hope University, 2011.
---. Leading Critical Dissemination (a round table session with David Mitchell, Robert McRuer, and Stuart Murray), Present Difference, 6-8 Jan. Manchester Metropolitan University, 2010.
---. Introduction. Literary, Cultural, and Disability Studies: A Tripartite Approach to Poststructuralism, 8 June, Lancaster University, 2009.
---. Introduction. Literary, Cultural, and Disability Studies: A Tripartite Approach to Postcolonialism, 1 June, Lancaster University, 2009.
---. Guest Speaker, Disability and Popular Fiction: Reading Representations, 22 May, Liverpool John Moores University, 2009.
---. “Symbiosis and Subjectivity: Literary Representations of Disability and Social Care.” Theorising Culture and Disability: Interdisciplinary Dialogues, 3 July, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2008. This has also been included on the Disability Archive UK.
---. Guest Speaker & Panelist at Cultural Locations of Disability: Situating a Cultural Disability Studies, 20 February, University of Leeds, 2008.
---.‘Literary Disability Studies: The Long Awaited Response.’ Plenary presentation at the Inaugural Conference of the Cultural Disability Studies Research Network, hosted by Liverpool John Moores University, May 26–27. This paper has been included in the Disability Archive UK, 2007.[40]
---.‘A Brief Introduction to Post-Disability Literary Criticism.’ Presented at Keele University on 21 September. This paper has been included in the Disability Archive UK, 2004.[41]

Short stories

(2007) ‘The Currency of Beauty?’ Breath & Shadow: ROSC’s Journal of Literature and Disability Culture, 4.7.
(2007) ‘The Silent Treatment.’ Breath & Shadow: ROSC’s Journal of Literature and Disability Culture, 4.1. This has also been included on the Disability Archive UK.

Poetry

(2006) ‘Worth.’ Waking Dreams. London: United Press, p. 24.
(2006) ‘Maybe.’ Natural Beauty. London: United Press, p. 145.
(2005) ‘Breaking Hands.’ Perfectly Poetic. London: United Press, p. 112. This poem has also been published in Perfect Magic. London: United Press, 2006. p. 345.
(2004) ‘Table Talk.’ Summer Daze. London: United Press, p. 67.
(2004) ‘Nostalgia.’ Still Life. London: United Press, p. 62. This poem has also been published in Life’s Tapestry. London: United Press, 2005. p. 75.
(2004) ‘Green in You, Red in Me.’ In This Life. London: United Press, p. 72.
(2003) ‘Man in A Trap.’ Bright Voices. London: United Press, p. 140. This poem has also been published in The Voice of Reason. London: United Press, 2004. p. 241.

References

  1. ↑ The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. (2012) Published by Liverpool University Press. Available at: http://JLCDS.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
  2. ↑ Centre for Culture & Disability Studies. (2012) Liverpool Hope University. Available at: http://ccds.hope.ac.uk/
  3. ↑ Liverpool Hope University Staff Index. (2012) Available at: http://www.hope.ac.uk/staffindex/staffmembers/name,2448,en.html
  4. ↑ Bolt, David, Julia Miele Rodas, and Elizabeth Donaldson. (2012) The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability. Ohio: Ohio State University Press. http://www.ohiostatepress.org/books/book%20pages/bolt%20madwoman.html
  5. ↑ Liverpool Hope University Staff Index. (2012) Available at: http://www.hope.ac.uk/staffindex/staffmembers/name,2448,en.html
  6. ↑ Centre for Culture & Disability Studies (2012) Available at: http://ccds.hope.ac.uk
  7. ↑ 1.1 - Disability and/as Poetry, guest edited by Jim Ferris, 2007. Available at: http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/n4h4u6101766/?p=c1b05c481e0b432e9f7b04a70679adf5&pi=12
  8. ↑ 1.2 - Disability and the Dialectic of Dependency, guest edited by Michael Davidson, 2007. Available at: http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/xk718722n451/?p=c1b05c481e0b432e9f7b04a70679adf5&pi=11
  9. ↑ 2.1 - The Representation of Cognitive Impairment, guest edited by Lucy Burke, 2008. Available at: http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/j46170x18v83/?p=c986e84f300f4910af96001897c410d9&pi=10
  10. ↑ 3.1 - General issue, 2009. Available at: http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/lw48563n5211/?p=c986e84f300f4910af96001897c410d9&pi=9
  11. ↑ 3.2 - Blindness and Literature, guest edited by Georgina Kleege, 2009. Available at: http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/g125k7407017/?p=c986e84f300f4910af96001897c410d9&pi=8
  12. ↑ 3.3- Deleuze, Disability, and Difference, guest edited by Petra Kuppers and James Overboe, 2009. Available at: http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/m18412r3x682/?p=c986e84f300f4910af96001897c410d9&pi=7
  13. ↑ 4.1 - General issue, 2010. Available at: http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/m7pm6g361j20/?p=c986e84f300f4910af96001897c410d9&pi=6
  14. ↑ 4.2 - Ablenationalism and the Geo-Politics of Disability, guest edited by Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell, 2010. Available at: http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/x4807g70400l/?p=c986e84f300f4910af96001897c410d9&pi=5
  15. ↑ 4.3 - Disabling Postcolonislism: Global Disability Cultures and Democratic Criticism, guest edited by Clare Barker and Stuart Murray, 2010. Available at: http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/g2252t4m751h/?p=c986e84f300f4910af96001897c410d9&pi=4
  16. ↑ 5.1 - General issue, 2011. Available at: http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/j8j34871ltk8/?p=c986e84f300f4910af96001897c410d9&pi=3
  17. ↑ 5.2 - Representing Disability and Emotion, guest edited by Elizabeth J. Donaldson and Catherine Prendergast, 2011. Available at:http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/x24g43237x77/?p=c986e84f300f4910af96001897c410d9&pi=2
  18. ↑ 5.3 - Disability and Life Writing, edited by G. Thomas Couser, 2011. Available at: http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/vunxw76895l3/?p=c986e84f300f4910af96001897c410d9&pi=1
  19. ↑ 6.1 - General issue, 2012. Available at: http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/q12174182415/?p=c986e84f300f4910af96001897c410d9&pi=0
  20. ↑ 6.2 - Popular Genres and Disability Representation, guest edited by Ria Cheyne, 2012. Available at: http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/u45204714861/?p=eb550e386a624f1684b81d040d487e24&pi=0
  21. ↑ Bolt, David. “The Blindman in the Classic: Feminisms, Ocularcentrism, and Jane Eyre.” The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability. Ed. David Bolt, Julia Miele Rodas, and Elizabeth J. Donaldson. Ohio: Ohio State UP, 2012. Available at: http://www.ohiostatepress.org/books/book%20pages/bolt%20madwoman.htm
  22. ↑ Bolt, David. ‘Social Encounters, Cultural Representation, and Critical Avoidance', Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies. Ed. Nick Watson, Carol Thomas and Alan Roulstone. London: Routledge, 2012. 287-97. Available at: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415574006/
  23. ↑ Bolt, David. ‘Community, Controversy, and Compromise: The Language of Visual Impairment’. Language, Bodies, and Health. Ed. Paul McPherron and Vaidehi Ramanathan. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2011. 15-36. Available at: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/43618
  24. ↑ Bolt, David. ‘The Starfish Paradigm: Impairment, Disability, and characterisation in Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh.”’ Midwest Quarterly 52.1 (2010): 11-30
  25. ↑ Bolt, David. ‘The Blindman in the Classic: Feminisms and Ocularcentrism in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.’ Textual Practice 22.2 (2008): 269-89. Available at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/0950236X.html
  26. ↑ Bolt, David. ‘Saramago’s Blindness: Humans or Animals?’ The Explicator, fall , 66.1, pp.44-47. 2007. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/vexp20/66/1
  27. ↑ Bolt, David. ‘Osborne’s Look Back in Anger: Looking Back at Oedipus.’ The Explicator, 65, 4, pp. 237-40. 2007. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/vexp20/65/4
  28. ↑ Bolt, David. Introduction. Disability and/as Poetry. Ed. Jim Ferris. Spec. Issue of Journal of Literary Disability 1.1, pp. i-vi. 2007. Available at: http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/n4h4u6101766/?p=4f8a0fe498b94e4e91863149747ebfb9&pi=12
  29. ↑ Bolt, David, and Michael Davidson. "Disability and the Dialectic of Dependency," Journal of Literary Disability 1, 2. 2000. Available at:http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/xk718722n451/?p=4f8a0fe498b94e4e91863149747ebfb9&pi=11
  30. ↑ Bolt, David, ‘Beneficial Blindness: Literary Representation and the So-Called Positive Stereotyping of People with Impaired Vision.’ New Zealand Journal of Disability Studies, 12, pp. 80-100. 2006. Available at:http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/bolt/Beneficial%20Blindness.pdf
  31. ↑ Bolt, David. ‘Looking Back at Literature: A Critical Reading of the Unseen Stare in Depictions of People with Impaired Vision.’ Disability & Society, December, 20, 7, pp. 735-747. 2005. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cdso20/20/7
  32. ↑ Bolt, David. ‘Caught in the Chasm: Literary Representation and Suicide among People with Impaired Vision.’ British Journal of Visual Impairment, September, 23, 3, pp. 117-121. 2005. Available at: http://jvi.sagepub.com/content/23/3.toc
  33. ↑ Bolt, David. ‘From Blindness to Visual Impairment: Terminological Typology and the Social Model of Disability.’ Disability & Society, August, 20, 5, pp. 539-552. 2005. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cdso20/20/5
  34. ↑ Bolt, David, ‘Castrating Depictions of Visual Impairment: The Literary Backdrop to Eugenics.’ Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, March, 99, 3, pp. 141-50. 2005. Available at: http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pubjvib.asp?DocID=jvib9903toc
  35. ↑ Bolt, David. ‘Disability and the Rhetoric of Inclusive Higher Education’. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 28, 4, pp. 353-358. 2004. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjfh20/28/4
  36. ↑ Bolt, David. ‘Terminology and the Psychosocial Burden of Blindness.’ British Journal of Visual Impairment, 22, 2, pp. 52-4. 2004. Available at: http://jvi.sagepub.com/content/22/2.toc
  37. ↑ Bolt, David. ‘The Terminology Debate Continues.’ Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 98, 3, pp. 133-4. 2004. Available at: http://www.afb.org/jvib/JVIB9803toc.asp
  38. ↑ Bolt, David.‘Blindness and the Problems of Terminology.’ Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 97, 9, pp. 519-20. 2003. Available at: http://www.afb.org/jvib/JVIB9709toc.asp
  39. ↑ Bolt, David, Julia Miele Rodas, and Elizabeth Donaldson. (2012) The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability. Ohio: Ohio State University Press. http://www.ohiostatepress.org/books/book%20pages/bolt%20madwoman.html
  40. ↑ Bolt, David. ---.‘Literary Disability Studies: The Long Awaited Response.’ Plenary presentation at the Inaugural Conference of the Cultural Disability Studies Research Network, hosted by Liverpool John Moores University, May 26–27. Available at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/bolt/Long%20Awaited%20Response.pdf
  41. ↑ Bolt, David. ‘A Brief Introduction to Post-Disability Literary Criticism.’ Presented at Keele University on 21 September 2004. Available at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/bolt/Keele%20Presentation%20Archive.pdf

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