Dr. Tom Whittaker

Biography

Tom Whittaker joined the University of Warwick in 2017 as an Associate Professor in Film and Spanish Cultural Studies. He served as the Head of Hispanic Studies from 2019 to 2021 and was promoted to Reader in 2022. Prior to joining Warwick, Tom held lectureships in Hispanic Studies at the University of Liverpool and Film Studies at Kingston University. He has international teaching experience, having held visiting lectureships at the University of Georgia, University of Iceland, and Brown University, and was the inaugural José Amor y Vásquez visiting scholar. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has served as an external examiner at various universities including Leicester, York, Manchester, and Liverpool. His research interests lie in Spanish film, with recent focuses on the sound in Spanish film culture and the landscape of cinematic geographies in Spanish and Latin American cinema. Tom's latest monograph, "Spanish Quinqui Film: Delinquency, Sound, Sensation," published by Manchester University Press in 2020, explores the genre of cine quinqui through various media texts and sociological studies, providing a social history of marginal communities during Spain's transition to democracy. He has co-edited special journal issues and authored edited books on topics like performance in Spanish film and the sound in Spanish cultural studies.

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