About the series

This series advances a new approach to disability, art history, and curatorial studies 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.

We welcome proposals for monographs and edited collections. Please contact emma.brennan@manchester.ac.uk or visit https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/author-hub/ to get started.

View the series’ access statement here.

Series Editors

Amanda Cachia, Lisa Slominski

Image credit: Joseph Grigely, Between the Walls and Me, 2023.
Photograph by Jon Verney.