Adjunct Lecturer, School of Information & Communication Studies
Kit is a librarian and early career researcher, whose research interests relate to disability in children’s and young adult literature; historical representations of disability in literature for children; intersections of disability studies and librarianship; and disability advocacy through library programming. The scope of their research extends to the use of world-building as a tool of universal design, examining recent shifts in library and publishing spaces around access and inclusion such as the #OwnVoices and #WeNeedDiverseBooks movements; literary analysis of common disability tropes such as miracle cures and disability as a narrative prosthesis. They are currently completing an analysis of disability in Antipodean fiction for Oxford University Press. Primarily a qualitative researcher, their work is explicitly interdisciplinary, focusing on intersections particularly disability studies, library and information studies, and literary studies.
