David Bolt - Academic Work

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). 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.