David Bolt

David Bolt is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies and the director of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies,[1] housed in the Graduate School, Faculty of Education at Liverpool Hope University, where he is also associate professor in disability studies.[2]

Academic work

Bolt joined Liverpool Hope University in August 2009 as a lecturer in disability studies. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, 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.

Centre for Culture & Disability Studies

Bolt is the director of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies (CCDS; Graduate School, Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope University). 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.

Key areas of interest include:

References

  1. Centre for Culture & Disability Studies. (2012) Liverpool Hope University.
  2. Liverpool Hope University Staff Index. (2012)

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