David Bolt, Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity and Director of the University’s Centre for Culture and Disability Studies, has been involved in the completion of 100 book-length publications.
This significant centennial milestone in David’s academic publishing career coincides with Disability History Month (November 20 – December 20). Much of David’s work explores the representation of disability in historical, social, and cultural settings.
David has been instrumental in the publication of these culturally important works in various capacities, with his roles spanning editor-in-chief, series editor, general editor, volume editor, joint guest editor, and author.
Significantly, David is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, which plays an important role in advancing the understanding of disability representation, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars in related fields.
100 works from Professor David Bolt:
- Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (Liverpool University Press), 63 issues, recognised by Project MUSE, Scopus, and Web of Science, three of the most significant indicators of esteem in academic publication. Hope colleagues Dr Ana Be, Dr Ella Houston, and Dr Erin Pritchard have all guest edited special issues; Dr Leah Burch, Dr Irene Rose, and Fran Zerva are also among the international contributors.
- Joint Volume Editor of The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability (Ohio State University Press, 2012) and Disability, Avoidance, and the Academy: Challenging Resistance (Routledge, 2016). Hope’s Dr Laura Waite has a chapter in the latter.
- Joint General Editor of A Cultural History of Disability (Bloomsbury), a set of 6 edited volumes.
- Author of The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-Reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing (University of Michigan Press, 2014) and Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide (Routledge, 2019).
- Book Series Editor of Autocritical Disability Studies (Routledge), 9 titles, including Midgetism: The Exploitation and Discrimination of People with Dwarfism by Dr Erin Pritchard and Advertising Disability by Dr Ella Houston. Other Hope colleagues Dr Leah Burch, Dr Emma Swai, and Fran Zerva, as well as EdD student Marnie Mitchell have all contributed chapters to edited volumes in this series.
- Volume Editor of Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability: Perspectives from Historical, Cultural, and Educational Studies (Routledge, 2014), which was also translated for a Korean edition.
- Joint Series Editor of Literary Disability Studies (Springer), 16 books thus far.
- Joint Guest Editor of a special issue of The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 2014, volume 6, issue 3.