David Bolt

Dr. David Bolt is the founding editor of The Journal of Literary Disability and the co-editor of the issues on poetry, dependency and cognitive impairment with Jim Ferris, Michael Davidson and Lucy Burke respectively.

Academic work

He is also a peer reviewer for The Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness. 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, he has written more than a dozen articles for 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.^[1]

Articles

(2007) ‘Saramago’s Blindness: Humans or Animals?’ The Explicator, Winter.
(2007) ‘Osborne’s Look Back in Anger: Looking Back at Oedipus.’ The Explicator, Winter.
(2006) ‘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.
(2005) ‘Caught in the Chasm: Literary Representation and Suicide among People with Impaired Vision.’ British Journal of Visual Impairment, September, 23, 3, pp. 117–121. The article has been translated into Spanish and published in Between Two Worlds (2005) ‘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) ‘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) ‘From Blindness to Visual Impairment: Terminological Typology and the Social Model of Disability.’ Disability & Society, August, 20, 5, pp. 539–552. The article is currently being translated into Spanish and will be published in Between Two Worlds.
(2005) ‘Castrating Depictions of Visual Impairment: The Literary Backdrop to Eugenics.’ Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, March, 99, 3, pp. 141–50.
(2004) ‘Disability and the Rhetoric of Inclusive Higher Education’. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 28, 4, pp. 353–358.
(2004) ‘Terminology and the Psychosocial Burden of Blindness.’ British Journal of Visual Impairment, 22, 2, pp. 52–4. The article has been translated into Spanish and published in Between Two Worlds (2005) ‘Terminologia y la Carga Psicosocial de la Ceguera.’ Entre dos mundos: Revista de traducción sobre discapacidad visual, April, 27, pp. 47–50.
(2004) ‘The Terminology Debate Continues.’ Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 98, 3, pp. 133–4..
(2003) ‘Blindness and the Problems of Terminology.’ Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 97, 9, pp. 519–20. .

Edited works

Bolt, David and Michael Davidson (eds). (2007) Journal of Literary Disability: Disability and the Dialectic of Dependency, 1, 2.
Bolt, David and Jim Ferris (eds). (2007) Journal of Literary Disability: Disability and/as Poetry, 1, 1.

Presentations

(2007) ‘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 Studies Archive UK.
(2004) ‘A Brief Introduction to Post-Disability Literary Criticism.’ Presented at Keele University on 21 September. This paper has been included in the Disability Studies Archive UK.

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.

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. ^ Bolt, David (2007), "Introduction", Journal of Literary Disability 1 (1): i, http://www.journalofliterarydisability.com 

External links

• Journal of Literary Disability
• Breath and Shadow
• Cultural Disability Research Network
• Disability Archive UK

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