Disability and the Arts is a new playlist on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Changing Social Attitudes to Blindness is a new playlist on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Changing Social Attitudes to Dwarfism is a new playlist on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Changing Social Attitudes to Learning Disability is a new playlist on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Changing Social Attitudes to Mental Health is a new playlist on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

We now have an Autocritical Disability Studies playlist on the CCDS YouTube channel, which gives free access to some of the work done in the book series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KXK...

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 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...

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...

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

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...

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 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 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

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 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

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 by Owen Barden is now available to pre-order here: www.routledge.com/Learning-wit... @owenbarden.bsky.social

📚 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 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...

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...

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

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...

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 @lsternetrust.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @davidbolt13.bsky.social @profdanielcook.bsky.social‬ @asecsoffice.bsky.social

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

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

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 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

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...

The panel Cultural Histories, which was part of the Disability Histories: Multiple Engagement Event held by the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies in 7 February 2024, is now available on the CCDS YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz_6... #MoreThanNeeds @drerinpritchard.bsky.social

To celebrate our 125th anniversary, @clarehooper.bsky.social reflected on @davidbolt13.bsky.social's contribution to the field of Disability Studies, alongside many other achievements in his academic career. Read more here ⬇️ liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2024/12/02/i...

LUP is celebrating its 125th anniversary. I am profoundly moved by the comments of Clare Hooper, Julia Miele Rodas, Tanya Titchkosky, Robert McRuer, Rod Michalko, Owen Barden, Ella Houston, Kay Martin, and Lennard J. Davis: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2024/12/02/i... @livunipress.bsky.social