David Bolt is Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity, Programme Leader on the Disability Studies MA, Director of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies, and Chair of the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences’ Professoriate at Liverpool Hope University, where he has chaired the School of Social Science Ethics Committee and Research Committee, and teaches multiple aspects of cultural and disability studies to students ranging from 1st-year undergraduates to doctoral candidates. Starting with an AHRC-funded literary disability studies PhD completed more than 20 years ago, his work in disability studies has been recognised ineducation, the humanities, and the social sciences. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (Liverpool University Press/Project MUSE/Scopus/Web of Science), a quarterly publication founded in 2006. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies (Oxford University Press), a major international online project on which he commenced work in 2024. He is Book Series Editor of Autocritical Disability Studies (Routledge) and, with Elizabeth J.Donaldson and Julia Miele Rodas, of Literary Disability Studies (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer) and General Editor, with Robert McRuer, of the six-volume project A Cultural History of Disability (Bloomsbury). He has authored The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing (University of Michigan Press, 2014), Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide (Routledge, 2019), Disability Duplicity and the Formative Cultural Identity Politics of Generation X (Routledge, 2024), and The Playground Model of Disability: Dis/honesty Tropes in Contemporary British Sociocultural Representation (Routledge, 2026); articles in journals such as The Explicator, Textual Practice, Disability and Society, The Midwest Quarterly, Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, British Journal of Visual Impairment, New Zealand Journal of Disability Studies, Mosaic, and Journal of Further and Higher Education (some of which have been translated into Spanish); and chapters in edited books such as the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (2024), Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies: (Dis)Assemblages (2020), Dance, Disability and Law (2018), Beginning With Disability (2017), The Disability Studies Reader (2016), Short Story Criticism (2014), Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies (2012/2020), and Language, Bodies, and Health (2011). He is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has been Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Disability Research, Lancaster University. He is editor of Changing social attitudes toward disability: Perspectives from historical, cultural, and educational studies (Routledge, 2014, translated into Korean, 2018), Metanarratives of Disability: Culture, Assumed Authority and the Normative Social Order (Routledge, 2021), Finding Blindness: International Constructions and Deconstructions (Routledge, 2023), and Cultural Stations of Disability: A Moment in Discourse (Routledge, 2026) and has collaborated on the editing of other projects, including Disability, Avoidance and the Academy: Challenging Resistance (Routledge, 2016), The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability (Ohio State University Press, 2012), and a special issue of the Review of Disability Studies (2010).