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Dr Ria Cheyne

Arts Professional and Social Studies

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

Email: R.J.Cheyne@ljmu.ac.uk

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Ria is a postdoctoral research fellow on the Disabled Researchers Network project (PI Dr Lucie Matthews-Jones). Funded by Research England's 'Enhancing Research Culture' initiative, the project aims to:

• Identify the structural barriers faced by disabled researchers in higher education
• Explore how to build a positive research culture for disabled researchers, at LJMU and beyond.

Before joining LJMU, Ria was a Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University. Much of her research has focused on representations of disability and health in contemporary literature and culture, bringing together literary studies, disability studies, and critical medical humanities. She has published widely on disability in literature, and on genre fiction. Her book Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction (Liverpool University Press, 2019) was selected for open access publication via Knowledge Unlatched, and she has guest edited-special issues of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies on 'Popular Genres and Disability Representation' (2012) and 'The Intersections of Disability and Science Fiction' (2020, with Kathryn Allan). She is one of the leads of the Neurodivergent Humanities Network (funded by the Wellcome Trust via the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research).

Ria's current projects include an edited collection on disclosure in critical medical humanities (with Dr Anna McFarlane, University of Leeds), an investigation into framings of 'neurodiversity' in contemporary culture, and a chapter on neuroqueer theory and science fiction.

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