Description: Author / Journalist / Associate Professor
Welcome to the personal website of writer, editor and University of Portsmouth senior lecturer Dr Tom Sykes. From satire to academic essays, reportage to travel narrative, here’s a stash of stuff I’ve published in media including Private Eye, New Statesman, Interventions, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, New Internationalist, Declassified UK, New African and The Philippine Free Press …
Buy my latest book, Imagining Manila: Literature, Empire and Orientalism , here.
‘Tom Sykes demonstrates how Manila functions as the metonym for the Philippine meta-archipelago, often with breath-taking reductiveness and strikingly telling material effects. Imagining Manila has much to teach us on the matter of representations, and why representations matter.” – Oscar V. Campomanes, Ateneo de Manila University