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Title
Tori Holmes
Category
undergraduate
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https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/tori-holmes/
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https://www.qub.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/spanish-ba-r410/
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2026-03-23T18:56:03+00:00
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Tori Holmes

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Tori Holmes

Dr

United Kingdom

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

2009Research output 2009: 1Research output 2012: 1Research output 2013: 1Research output 2016: 2Research output 2017: 3Research output 2018: 2Research output 2020: 1Research output 2021: 1Research output 2022: 1Research output 2023: 1Research output 2024: 2Research output 2025: 12025

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Research Statement

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.

Teaching

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 supervisionon topics relating to Brazilian (and Latin American) 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 (primary supervisor), representations and self-representations of Afro-Brazilian women in audiovisual and digital media (primary supervisor), violence in Brazilian and Mozambican film (co-supervisor), and gang violence in El Salvador as represented in contemporary crónicas and documentary (second supervisor).

At PhD level, I am currently joint supervisor (with Professor Sarah Bowskill) for a DfE-funded PhD project on representations of gang violence in contemporary Central American crónica and documentary. I have recently supervised theses on gender and audiovisual production in Rio de Janeiro's urban periphery (DEL Strategic Award, jointly supervised with Professor Cahal McLaughlin in Film), Mozambican cinema (AHRC Northern Bridge studentship, co-supervised with Dr Maria Tavares), and chicana literature (as second supervisor, working with Professor Sarah Bowskill as first supervisor). I welcome enquiries about potential projects for supervision.

I have been the coordinator of 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):

  1. SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Research output

Brandellero, S., Dennison, S. & Holmes, T., 2025, In: Portuguese Studies. 41, 2, p. 183-187

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article - ### A intertextualidade midiática de “Que Tiro Foi Esse”: rastreando a circulação de balas (perdidas) em e através de um meme de internet brasileiro

Holmes, T., 2024, A cultura dos memes no Brasil: agendas e desafios de pesquisa sobre uma das únicas instituições que se mantêm de pé no país. Chagas, V. (ed.). Salvador, Bahia: Editora da Universidade Federal da Bahia (EDUFBA), p. 315-352

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review - ### Rupturas e Continuidades na Produção Cultural Brasileira: Introdução

Dennison, S., Holmes, T. & Brandellero, S., 29 Dec 2024, In: Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies. 13, 2, p. 1-9

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access

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29 Downloads (Pure) - ### Kraay, Hendrik, Castilho, Celso Thomas and Cribelli, Teresa (2021) Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil, University of New Mexico Press (Albuquerque), xii + 306 pp. US$85 hbk, US$ 85 ebk

Holmes, T., 08 Aug 2023, In: Bulletin of Latin American Research. 42, 3, p. 477-478

Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review - ### Memes in Brazilian Digital Culture

Holmes, T., 24 Nov 2022, Latin American Literature in Transition 1980-2018. Szurmuk, M. & Castillo, D. A. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 356-371 (Latin American Literature in Transition).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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Prizes

Holmes, T. (Recipient), 2016

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

Holmes, T. (Recipient), 2013

Prize: Election to learned society

Activities

Holmes, T. (Organiser)

2026

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference - ### Indigenous Peoples’ Letters to Brazil: Rethinking History, Imagining the Future

Holmes, T. (Organiser)

28 Nov 2025

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course - ### External Examination of PhD in Communication

Holmes, T. (Examiner)

11 Apr 2025

Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination - ### Online Media and Global Communication (Journal)

Holmes, T. (Peer reviewer)

2025

Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review - ### VI International Conference of REBRAC (European Network of Brazilianists Working in Cultural Analysis)

Holmes, T. (Speaker)

19 Apr 2024

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

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Press/Media

Holmes, T.

15/02/2025

1 Media contribution

Press/Media: Other - ### No século XXI, brasilianistas diversificam focos de interesse

Holmes, T.

01/01/2023

1 item of Media coverage

Press/Media: Other