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.

Thursday, 28 January 2016

Making Space for Accessible Art

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Yesterday I was delighted to welcome Blind Creations artist David Johnson back to Royal Holloway. David’s large-scale outdoor installation...

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

My cataract operation 2: what I see now

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This time last week I was awaiting the first of two cataract operations . On Friday, medics removed a dense cataract from my right eye. Than...

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Wednesday, 6 January 2016

My cataract operation

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As Kate Tunstall shows in the Prologue to her important essay 'Blindness and Enlightenment' (2011), the cataract operation, or, more...

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Thursday, 26 November 2015

The Day My Glasses Broke

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Last week I was pleased to be invited to speak on 'Blindness in French Fiction' at an international colloquium on 'Representatio...

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Thursday, 15 October 2015

Blindness and Art: An Interview

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This week I was interviewed by Paul Hammond of UCB UK. You can listen to the full interview below. Provided courtesy of UCB Media UK.

Tuesday, 6 October 2015

Exploring Human Rights in Winnipeg

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I spent last week in Winnipeg, Canada where my tireless Blind Creations collaborator Vanessa Warne had arranged for me to give lectures and...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

Book Review: Look by Romain Villet

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The image shows the front cover of Look by French author and musician Romain Villet which was published by Gallimard in February 2014. I...

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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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