Blind Spot

This blog maps my place as a partially-blind academic in a resolutely sighted world. It looks at blindness in history, literature, art, film and society through my out-of-focus gaze.

Sunday, 23 June 2013

The Voice Part 2 The Result

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In April I wrote about Andrea Begley's 'blind' audition for UK TV show The Voice : in that post I wondered how the judges - and...

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Wednesday, 5 June 2013

The Taboo of Blindness

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Taboo: Corporeal Secrets in Nineteenth Century France (Oxford: Legenda, 2013) (Cover image courtesy of the Wellcome Library, London) ...

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Monday, 27 May 2013

Blindness in Fiction 5: blueeyedboy

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I have always loved Joanne Harris's fiction. She is best known for her Vianne Rocher trilogy ( Chocolat , The Lollipop Shoes , Peaches ...

Saturday, 18 May 2013

International Conference: The History of Blindness and the Blind

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UPDATE: Read my account of the conference's impact here . I have only recently realised that blindness is a subject worthy of academi...

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Monday, 13 May 2013

On Giving Directions to the Blind

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Last week I visited the RNIB to use their research library. I had found a couple of promising nineteenth-century texts through their online ...

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Friday, 26 April 2013

In Praise of Public Transport

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Waiting for the bus in Nimes, April 2013 Most people assume that not being able to drive is the most negative thing about being regi...

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Sunday, 14 April 2013

The Voice: Blind Auditions

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Andrea Begley during her 'blind' audition (from bbc.co.uk) At first glance BBC One's The Voice appears to be just anot...

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Hannah Thompson: I am a Professor of French and Critical Disability Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. I am interested in representations of the body, more specifically disability. I am particularly interested in blindness and how the sighted and partially sighted and the blind and partially blind relate to each other. Follow me on Twitter @BlindSpotHannah

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