Introduction: Theorizing Culture and Disability: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
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disability culture, disability theory, disability studies
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An ongoing project on interdisciplinary approaches to disability has grown from a brief exchange of e-mails between one of us, a professor of psychology and disability studies, and the other, a lecturer in disability studies and editor of a journal that focuses on literary and cultural studies of disability. The outcome of the exchange has thus far been twofold, both elements going under the title Theorizing Culture and Disability: Interdisciplinary Dialogues...
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Dan Goodley, Professor of Psychology and Disability Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University
Dan Goodley, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Disability Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). He is a member of the editorial teams for Disability & Society and Educational Action Research and co-convenor of the Critical Community and Disability Studies Research Group at MMU (http://www.rihsc.mmu.ac.uk/research-centres/scwb/criticalstudies/disability.php).
David Bolt, Lecturer and Recognised Researcher in Disability Studies, Faculty of Education, Liverpool Hope University
David Bolt, Ph.D., is a Lecturer and Recognised Researcher in Disability Studies, in the Faculty of Education at Liverpool Hope University, where he is also Director of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies (http://ccds.hope.ac.uk/). He is editor of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies and a member of the editorial teams for Disability & Society and the Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness. They may be contacted at: D.Goodley@mmu.ac.uk and boltd@hope.ac.uk.