I have a first class degree, an award for excellence, and an AHRC-funded doctorate from the University of Staffordshire. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, winner of a Student-Led Teaching Award for Innovative Teaching, and have been working at Liverpool Hope University since 2009. I am Director of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies, Professor of Disability studies in the school of social science and course leader on the Disability Studies MA. I am founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (Liverpool University Press). I am editor, with my New York colleagues Elizabeth Donaldson and Julia Miele Rodas, of the book series Literary Disability Studies (Palgrave Macmillan). I am general editor, with my George Washington University colleague Robert McRuer, of the multivolume project A Cultural History of Disability (Bloomsbury).  I am also editor of the book series Autocritical Disability Studies (Routledge). I have organized and co-organised events at Liverpool Hope University, University of Lancaster, Manchester Metropolitan University, and the University of Staffordshire. I am founder of the International Network of Literary & Cultural Disability Scholars and was the first Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Disability Research at the University of Lancaster. I am joint editor of the books, The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability (Ohio State University Press, 2012/2015) and Disability, Avoidance, and the Academy: Challenging Resistance (Routledge, 2016), and co-guest editor of the special issue Theorising Culture and Disability: Interdisciplinary Dialogues (Review of Disability Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa). I have many international publications to my name, including journal articles, book chapters, special issues, and works of creative writing. Many of my articles have been included in The Disability Archive UK (University of Leeds) and a few have been translated into Dutch, Korean, and Spanish. I am author of Cultural Disability Studies in Education: Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide (Routledge, 2019) and The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-Reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing (University of Michigan Press, 2014). I am editor of Metanarratives of Disability: Culture, Assumed Authority, and the Normative Social Order (Routledge, 2021) and Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability: Perspectives from Historical, Cultural, and Educational Studies (Routledge, 2014).