NEW SERIES: Critical Studies in Art, Disability and Access from Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press is proud to launch Critical Studies in Art, Disability and Access, a new series dedicated to rethinking the relationship between disability, art history and curatorial practice.
This series advances a new approach that understands disability not as a marginal identity or representational theme, but as a critical cultural position that shapes how art is produced, encountered, and known. Foregrounding access as an epistemological condition, crip temporalities of labour and reception, and interdependent models of authorship and spectatorship, the series rethinks core art-historical and curatorial methods. Rather than expanding the canon through inclusion alone, it “disables” normative assumptions about embodiment, perception, productivity, and expertise, while critically examining how the practices of disabled artists are represented, interpreted, and institutionally mediated.
Proposals for monographs and edited collections are now open. Learn how to submit here.
Editorial Board
Sheryll Catto, Artistic Director & CEO, ActionSpace, London, UK is on the Editorial Board. See the full list of Board members here.
Series Editors
Amanda Cachia (Ph.D. UCSD, 2017) is Professor of Practice in Museum Studies in the School of Art at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University and Affiliate Faculty in the Disability Studies B.A.
Lisa Slominski is a writer-curator and PhD candidate at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University London, whose practice-based research explores artistic agency, cultural intermediation, and the representation of learning disabled artists.
Read an interview on the new series with the Series Editors here.
Image credit: Joseph Grigely, Between the Walls and Me, 2023. Photograph by Jon Verney.
