About

Tom joined Warwick in 2017 as an Associate Professor in Film and Spanish cultural studies. He served as Head of Hispanic Studies 2019-2021, before being promoted to the position of Reader in 2022. Prior to Warwick, Tom held lectureships in Hispanic Studies at the University Liverpool and Film Studies at Kingston University. Tom has also held visiting lectureships at the University of Georgia, the University of Iceland, and most recently at Brown University, where he was was the inaugural José Amor y Vásquez visiting scholar.

Tom is co-editor of the Screen Arts issue for Hispanic Research Journal, and sits on the editorial board for the series Moving ImageLink opens in a new window for Legenda and the editorial advisory board for Journal of Spanish Cultural StudiesLink opens in a new window. He also served as Reviews Editor forStudies in Spanish and Latin American CinemasLink opens in a new window Link opens in a new windowfor ten years.

Tom is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and has served as an external examiner at the universities of Leicester, York, Manchester, and Liverpool.

Research interests

Tom has published widely on Spanish film, with much of his recent research focussing on sound in Spanish film and culture. He also has an interest in landscape, architecture, movement and cinematic geographies in Spanish and Latin American cinema. Tom welcomes prospective PhD students in any of these areas.

Current projects

Tom's latest monograph The Spanish Quinqui Film: Delinquency, Sound, Sensation is the first English-language study of cine quinqui, a series of popular Spanish films made in the late 1970s and early 1980s which starred real-life juvenile delinquents. Through drawing on a diverse range of materials which range from media texts to crime reports, from radio cassettes to criminological and sociological studies on delinquency, the book provides a social history of marginal communities whose voices have most often been unheard in critical studies of Spain's transition to democracy.

Administrative roles

• Director of Research (Hispanic Studies)
• Postgraduate Admissions Contact for Hispanic Studies

Authored and edited books

• The Spanish Quinqui Film: Delinquency, Sound, Sensation Link opens in a new windowManchester University Press, 2020
  Shortlisted for best monograph by BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies)
• Performance and Spanish FilmLink opens in a new window (co-edited with Dean Allbritton and Alejandro Melero), Manchester University Press, 2016
• Locating the Voice in Film: Global Practices and Critical ApproachesLink opens in a new window (co-edited with Sarah Wright), Oxford University Press, 2017
• The Films of Elías Querejeta: A Producer of LandscapesLink opens in a new window, University of Wales Press, 2011

Edited journal issues

• 'Contemporary Spanish Screen Media and Responses to Crisis and Aftermath'Link opens in a new window (co-edited with Chris Perriam), Hispanic Research Journal, 2019, 20 (1)
• 'Spanish Sound Studies'Link opens in a new window (co-edited with Samuel Llano), Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 2019, 20 (3)

Refereed articles

• 'Alcarràs and the realist turn in contemporary Spanish cinema', JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, forthcoming
• 'Postmemory, Photography and Touch in Pedro Almodóvar's Madres paralelas', Screen, 2023, 64 (3),
  446-461
• 'Accelerated Rhythms and Sonic Routes: Mapping the sound cultures of bakalao', Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 2019, 20 (3), 287-299
• 'Crime, Knowledge and the Photographic Object in La isla mínima', Hispanic Research Journal, 2018, 19 (1), 41-54
• ‘Ghostly Resonance: Sound, memory, and matter in Las olas and Dies d’agost’, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 2015, 15 (3), 323-336
• ‘Of Machines and Routines: Mundane rhythms and sounds in Whisky and Párpados azules’, Journal of Film and Video, 2015, 67 (2), 35-43
• ‘Locating ‘la voz’: The sound and space of Spanish dubbing’, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 2012, 13 (3), 292-305
• 'Between the Pretty and the Dirty: Bodies in Utopia in Pretty Dirty Things', Journal of International Cultural Studies, 2011, 14 (2), 121-134
• ‘Producing Resistance: Elías Querejeta’s political landscapes’, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 52, Summer 2010
• 'Frozen Soundscapes in Control (Anton Corbijn) and Radio On (Chris Petit)’, Journal of British Cinema and Television, 6 (3), 2009, 424–436
• ‘No-man’s Land: The transitional time and space in Carlos Saura’s Deprisa, deprisa’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 85 (5), 2008, 679–694

Book chapters

• 'Acoustic conflict and the Spanish far right during the Transition to Democracy' in (eds.) Eduardo Ledesma and L. Elena Delgado, Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain (Routledge, forthcoming)
• 'Rumbas and the acoustic experience of marginality in cine quinqui' in (ed.) Laura Miranda, The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music, (Routledge, 2024)
• 'Elevators and the Poetics of Vertical Mobility in Spanish Film' in (ed.) Susan Larson, Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film (Intellect, 2021), 96-112
• 'Sonorous flesh: The visual and aural erotics of skin in Eloy de la Iglesia’s quinqui films’, in (ed.) Santiago Fouz-Hernández, Spanish Erotic Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 154–168
• 'Woody Allen's Spanish “Double”: Vocal performance, ventriloquism and the sound of dubbing’ in (eds.) Tom Whittaker and Sarah Wright, Locating the Voice in Film: Critical Approaches and Global Practices (Oxford University Press, 2016), 119–136
• ‘The Sounds of José Luis López Vázquez: Vocal performance, gesture and technology in Spanish film’ in (eds.) Tom Whittaker, Alejandro Melero Salvador & Dean Albritton, Performance in Spanish Cinema (Manchester University Press, 2016), 96–109
• ‘The Politics of Pathos in Pilar Miró’s Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos’ in (eds.) Parvati Nair and Julian Gutiérrez-Albilla, Hispanic and Lusophone Women Filmmakers: Critical Discourses and Cinematic Practices (Manchester University Press, 2013), 226–239
• ‘Mobile Soundscapes in the Quinqui Film’ in (eds.) Rob Stone and Lisa Shaw, Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema (Manchester University Press, 2013), 98–113
• ‘Out of Place, Out of Synch: Errant movement and rhythm in Buñuel’s Mexican comedies of the 1950s’ in (eds.) Rob Stone and Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla, The Companion to Luis Buñuel (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 226-239

Qualifications

• PGCert in Higher Education, University of Liverpool
• PhD in Film Studies, University of London
• MA in Spanish Studies, University of London
• BA (Hons) in Hispanic Studies and French, University of London