James McGrath lectures in Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. Since 2003, he has been researching and publishing on interdisciplinary approaches to autism, as well as producing academic work on popular music. His 2007 journal article Reading Autism (Interdisciplinary Literary Studies) was among the first wave of Literary and Cultural Studies approaches to studying autism. He has reviewed books depicting disability for Spanish Journal of Irish Studies, Times Higher Education, and Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies and presented papers on autism at interdisciplina...