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James Charlton (other)
James Charlton may refer to: * James Charlton (activist), American author and disability rights activist * James Charlton (poet) (born 1947), Australian poet * James Martin Charlton (born 1966), English playwright and theatre director * Jim Charlton (1911–2013), Canadian coin dealer and numismatic publisher {{hndis, Charlton, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Charlton (activist)
James I. Charlton is an American author, disability rights activist, and Executive Vice President of Access Living in Chicago. He holds that disability is socially constructed. He created a model of the disability rights movement that differentiates between a number of different kinds of organizations. Career He has a graduate degree from the University of Chicago. Charlton has been Director of Programs, Executive Vice President and Acting President of Access Living since 1985. Charlton is an assistant professor in the Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a member of the Chicago Transit Authority's board of directors. In 2000, he published the book ''Nothing about us without us: disability oppression and empowerment''. Charlton authored the journal article ''Peripheral Everywhere'' about disabled persons as "double outcast". See also * List of disability rights activists * List of disability rights organizations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Charlton (poet)
James Charlton (born 1947) is an Australian poet and writer in the area of interfaith and interreligious studies. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Charlton has lived mostly in Tasmania. He completed an MA at the University of Cambridge, where he was at Fitzwilliam College, and a PhD at the University of Tasmania. Poetry editor of the Australian literary quarterly ''Island'' from 2002 to 2008, he delivered the inaugural Gwen Harwood Memorial Lecture in 2008. Works Charlton's ''Luminous Bodies'' was published in 2001 by Montpelier Press and tied for second place for the 2002 Anne Elder Award. ''So Much Light'' was published in 2007 by Pardalote Press. Numerous poems of his have been published in anthologies, in literary journals (Australian, American and British) and in newspapers. Various poems have been broadcast. "Transgressive Saints", shortlisted for the 2006 Broadway Poetry Prize, was published in ''The Broadway Poetry Prize Winners 2006'' by Picaro Press. "Letter to Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Martin Charlton
James Martin Charlton (born 29 July 1966) is an English playwright, theatre director and filmmaker. He was born in Romford, Greater London, United Kingdom in 1966. Career His play ''Fat Souls'' won the 1992 International Playwriting Festival at Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, where it premièred in 1993. ''Fat Souls'' and the plays which followed it - ''Groping in the Dark'' and ''Coming Up'' - use verse dialogue, soliloquies and emblematic characterisation all strapped to contemporary stories. The spiritual/anarchist strain in his writing continued in ''Divine Vision'', a biographical play about the relationship between William Blake and his patron, William Hayley, and a stage adaptation of John Bunyan's ''The Pilgrim's Progress''. In 2001, his play ''ecstasy + GRACE'' attracted media attention due to its portrait of paedophilia and moral degeneracy. The play went on to receive a mauling by leading critics, although other reviewers were more enthusiastic. Charlton's subsequent plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
