Research output per year
Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I am open to PhD applications in the fields of:
- Digital culture in Brazil and Latin America
- Representation of urban Brazil (particularly the favelas of Rio de Janeiro)
- Contemporary Brazilian audiovisual production (especially documentary)
- Urban violence and public security in Brazil including police violence
- Brazilian/Latin American cultural studies
- Data activism
- Digital ethnography and digital humanities, broadly understood
Research activity per year
My research explores socially and politically engaged uses of the internet and digital technologies in Brazil, and considers both texts and practices associated with these. I have worked on self-representational blogging by favela residents in Rio de Janeiro and webdocumentaries expressing a critical perspective about urban change in the lead-up to Rio's hosting of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. I am currently researching data activism about violence and public security in Brazil, and Brazilian internet memes, and preparing a book manuscript tying together the different strands of my work on Brazilian digital culture.
I also work on contemporary Brazilian documentary and audiovisual production, especially, but not only, as it intersects with digital culture.
A central thematic and methodological concern in my work is the idea of circulation. My approach is interdisciplinary, combining approaches from literary and cultural studies and the social sciences, and I have broader interests in ethical and methodological issues in internet and interdisciplinary research. I was a member of the Interdisciplinary Research Advisory Panel for REF2021.
I am keen to engage a wider audience with the themes of my research, and have done this via two cultural engagement initiatives, the Belfast Brazilian CineClub, which screens Brazilian documentaries in Belfast, and Other Registers, a collaborative sound installation about police violence in Rio de Janeiro, which has so far been staged in Rio de Janeiro, Belfast, London, and Sydney.
I am one of the founders and coordinators of REBRAC - European Network of Brazilianists Working in Cultural Analysis.
As well as a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Liverpool, I hold an MA in Area Studies (Latin America) from the University of London, with a final dissertation on internet cafés in Peru, and a BA (Hons) in Modern Languages (Spanish and French) from the University of Cambridge. Prior to undertaking doctoral study, I worked in London and Rio de Janeiro variously as a project coordinator, researcher, consultant, editor and translator specialising in the social, cultural and development uses of information and communication technologies.
I contribute interdisciplinary teaching on cultural, social, and political aspects of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present day, to undergraduate modules in Portuguese and Introduction to Lusophone Studies. My main research-led teaching interests relate to digital and (audio)visual cultures in contemporary Brazil, the representation of urban Brazil (particularly Rio de Janeiro and its favelas), and public security and police violence in Brazil. Depending on the year I offer optional modules/mini-modules on 'Brazilian Digital Culture: Trends and topics' and 'Circulating Violence: Films about public security in Rio de Janeiro' (both level 3), and 'Configurations of the Brazilian City' (level 2).
I also participate in Portuguese language teaching at all levels, with particular emphasis on translation into English and writing in Portuguese.
I contribute teaching on research ethics, fieldwork in the humanities, and digital ethnography to research methods provision at postgraduate level.
I am available for MRes supervision on topics relating to Brazilian culture, politics, and society, particularly involving attention to digital and audiovisual cultures. Recent MRes projects supervised by me have focused on the construction of political debates in contemporary Brazilian audiovisual media, representations and self-representations of Afro-Brazilian women in audiovisual and digital media, and violence in Brazilian and Mozambican film (the latter co-supervised).
At PhD level, I currently supervise students working on gender and audiovisual production in Rio's urban periphery (DEL Strategic Award, jointly supervised with Professor Cahal McLaughlin in Film) and Mozambican cinema (AHRC Northern Bridge studentship, co-supervised with Dr Maria Tavares). I was second supervisor for a PhD project on chicana literature, completed in 2018. I welcome enquiries about potential projects for supervision.
I also coordinate the QUB Modern Languages Core Disciplinary Research Group's 'Research Initiation Scheme', which aims to integrate final-year undergraduate students into Modern Languages research culture. Participants attend research talks and conduct interviews with current and recent postgraduate students which they then write up for publication on a blog.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Holmes, Tori (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Tori Holmes (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Tori Holmes (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Tori Holmes (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Tori Holmes (Host)
Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
Tori Holmes (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
01/01/2023
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