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Dr Tom Smith

Senior Lecturer

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2998

Email

tas3@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 106

Location

Buchanan

Office hours

Tuesday 2-3, Thursday 11-12

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Research areas

I started in ¾«¶«´«Ã½ 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 theÌýÌýin 2019. I presented some of my work on BBC Radio 3’sÌýFree ThinkingÌýandÌýThe EssayÌý– listenÌýto 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 calledÌý. It features aÌýÌýof texts and films, and aÌý. Please get in touch if you’d like to contribute!

My book,Ìý, 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 anÌýEssayÌýon BBC Radio 3 – listen to it onÌý.

PhD supervision

• KendraÌýLöwer
• CarolineÌýMay

Selected publications

• 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

• Open access
  Smith, T. (Translator), 31 Oct 2025, 6 p. Online : Goldsmiths University of London.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Smith, T., 29 Sept 2025, In: Histoire Sociale / Social History. 58, 119, p. 232-234

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Open access
  Smith, T. A., 17 Feb 2020, New York: Berghahn. 269 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

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