Dr Tom Smith
Senior Lecturer
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 2998
- tas3@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- Room 106
- Location
- Buchanan
- Office hours
- Tuesday 2-3, Thursday 11-12
Research areas
I started in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in 2017, having previously taught at Newcastle University, University College London, and Worcester College and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. My research interests are:
- post-war and contemporary German literature and culture
- music (classical and popular, especially electronic) in German culture
- German film and television
- gender and queer studies
- decolonial approaches to teaching and research
- the culture of East Germany
I am happy to discuss supervision of doctoral work on any of these areas.
My current project explores queer of colour perspectives on Germany’s club scene from the late 1980s. I am working with a range of sources, from electronic music, photography and club promotional material to magazines, literature and film. The first stage of the project was funded by a Research Incentive Grant from the Carnegie Trust, entitled Afrogermanic? Cultural Exchange and Racial Difference in the Aesthetic Products of the Early Techno Scenes in Detroit and Berlin. I was selected as one of the in 2019. I presented some of my work on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking and The Essay – listen to my piece on race in techno's origins in Detroit and Berlin.
With Nicola Thomas, Rey Conquer and Richard McClelland, I co-founded an online resource dedicated to diversity and decolonising in German Studies called . It features a of texts and films, and a . Please get in touch if you’d like to contribute!
My book, , appeared in February 2020 with Berghahn Books, and is available to download as an open-access e-book. I presented some of my ideas from the book as an Essay on BBC Radio 3 – listen to it on .
PhD supervision
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Selected publications
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Open access
Smith, T., 1 May 2025, Socialist subjectivities: queering East Germany under Honecker. White, K., Harrison, S. & Hayton, J. (eds.). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, p. 86-105 (Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Smith, T. (Translator), 31 Oct 2025, 6 p. Online : Goldsmiths University of London.
Research output: Other contribution
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Smith, T., 29 Sept 2025, In: Histoire Sociale / Social History. 58, 119, p. 232-234
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Smith, T., 2 Aug 2024, Documenting socialism: East German documentary cinema. Allan, S. & Heiduschke, S. (eds.). New York, NY: Berghahn, p. 287-306 20 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Smith, T., 14 Feb 2024, In: Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 60, 1, p. 78-80
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Open access
Smith, T., 1 Aug 2023, Entertaining German culture: contemporary transnational television and film. Ehrig, S., Schaper, B. & Ward, E. (eds.). New York, NY: Berghahn, p. 232-258 27 p. (Film Europa: German cinema in an international context; vol. 27).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Smith, T., 15 Nov 2022, In: The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory. 97, 4, p. 375-392 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Smith, T., 14 Dec 2021, In: Dancecult. 13, 1, p. 152-155
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Open access
Smith, T., 2021, German pop music in literary and transmedial perspectives. Schütte, U. (ed.). Berlin: Peter Lang, p. 93-114 (Studies in modern German and Austrian literature; vol. 11).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Smith, T. A., 17 Feb 2020, New York: Berghahn. 269 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book