Dr Guillem Colom-Montero

  • Senior Lecturer (Hispanic Studies)

telephone: 0141 330 7233
email: Guillem.Colom-Montero@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 222B, Hetherington Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8RS

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888

Biography

I have a BA in English Studies from the University of the Balearic Islands (2009) and a PhD in Hispanic Studies from Bangor University (2016). At Bangor I was a Graduate Teaching Assistant (2010-2015) and a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies (2015-2017). In 2016–2017 I was also a Visiting Lecturer in Catalan Studies at the University of Birmingham. From September 2017 to June 2019 I was a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Exeter. I joined the University of Glasgow in July 2019.

Research interests

My scholarly work has two main strands: the intersections between tourism, cultural creation and local grassroots activism in Spain and Scotland; and contemporary Catalan literature, culture and politics. By adopting a people-centred, place-based perspective, my research examines how communities in overcrowded destinations experience and represent tourism, analysing its intertwined material and symbolic impacts through a focus on community identity and belonging, right to city and place, cultural memory and socio-environmental justice. My academic work also explores how Catalan authors and public intellectuals respond to the region’s shifting cultural and sociopolitical landscape – from late Francoist to autonomous and post-referendum Catalonia – and, in particular, I am interested in their engagement with discourses of self-determination, popular empowerment and forms of political independence. I am the author of the monograph Quim Monzo and Contemporary Catalan Culture (1975-2018): Cultural Normalization, Postmodernism and National Politics (Legenda, 2021), and I have published a number of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on tourism in Spain and on Catalan Studies. 

Since 2020, I am co-director of the research lab 'Discourses of Sustainability'.

Publications

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2024

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2024) The representation of the "forasters" by the Majorcan Literary Generation of the 1970s. In: Fernàndez, Josep-Anton (ed.) The Other Catalans: Representations of Immigration in Catalan Literature. Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, pp. 57-80. ISBN 9781837721566

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2024) ‘Mosturito’, de Daniel Ruiz: cómo aprender a sobrevivir en la España de los ochenta. El País, 11 Sep. [Book Review]

Fusari, Sabrina and Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (Eds.) (2024) Linguacultural Spaces. Inclusion, Extension and Identification in Language and Society. Series: Quaderni del CeSLiC Occasional Papers Monografie. Centro di Studi Linguistico-Culturali (CeSLiC), Universita Di Bologna: Bologna. ISBN 9788854971554

Fusari, Sabrina and Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2024) Introduction. In: Fusari, Sabrina and Colom-Montero, Guillem (eds.) Linguacultural Spaces. Inclusion, Extension and Identification in Language and Society. Series: Quaderni del CeSLiC Occasional Papers Monografie, M3 (45). Centro di Studi Linguistico-Culturali (CeSLiC), Universita Di Bologna: Bologna, pp. 1-4. ISBN 9788854971554

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2024) Stories from Glasgow: Season 4, Episode 1 – Overtourism. [Audio]

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2024) Contemporary Majorcan culture and the transnational tourist gaze: colonial dynamics, cultural identity and spatial dispossession. In: Miguélez-Carballeira, Helena (ed.) Postcolonial Spain Coloniality, Violence and Independence. Series: Iberian and Latin American studies. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, pp. 111-129. ISBN 9781837721054

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2024) Revelando Casa Planas con Guillem Colom. [Film]

2023

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2023) Rafael, o la España ochentera del turismo, el ladrillo y la picaresca. El País, 23 Dec. [Book Review]

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2023) ‘Mallorca se hunde’: turismo y trauma en la cultura mallorquina actual. elDiario.es, 19 Jul.

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2023) Identitats culturals contemporànies: el cas català. Editat per Maria Àngels Francés Díezi Irene Mira-Navarro. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger. 2022. vii + 195 pp. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 100(6), pp. 935-936. (doi: 10.1080/14753820.2023.2266259)[Book Review]

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2023) ‘Mallorca s’enfonsa’: turisme i trauma a la cultura mallorquina actual. Nosaltres(11), pp. 20-21.

2022

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2022) Turisme i trauma cultural a Els Carnissers. In: Guillem Frontera. Un escriptor, un món. Ensiola: Muro, pp. 89-113. ISBN 9788412499537

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2022) Quim Monzó. El País, 7 October.

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2022) Els marges dels mapes: una geografia desplaçada, by Àlex Matas Pons. Catalan Review, 36(1), pp. 199-201. (doi: 10.3828/catr.36.10)[Book Review]

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2022) L’oracle: terror i tendresa al Chthulucè. Els Marges(127), pp. 102-104. [Book Review]

2021

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2021) Quim Monzó and Contemporary Catalan Culture (1975–2018): Cultural Normalization, Postmodernism and National Politics. Series: Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone cultures (45). Legenda: Cambridge. ISBN 9781781883921

2020

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2020) COVID summer of 2020: from overtourism to no-tourism in Southern Europe. Brave New Europe, 22 Dec.

2019

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2019) Mass tourism as cultural trauma: an analysis of the Majorcan comics Els darrers dies de l’Imperi Mallorquí (2014) and Un infern a Mallorca (La decadència de l’Imperi Mallorquí) (2018). Studies in Comics, 10(1), pp. 49-71. (doi: 10.1386/stic.10.1.49_1)

2018

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2018) Què en fem, de la cultura de la normalització? Núvol, 23 Sep.

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2018) Catalan Cartoons: A Cultural and Political History, by Rhiannon McGlade. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 2(1), pp. 137-166. (doi: 10.1080/24741604.2018.1463763)[Book Review]

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2018) Josep Renau and the Politics of Culture in Republican Spain, 1931–1939. Re-imagining the Nation, by Carl-Henrik Bjerström. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 95(1), pp. 168-170. (doi: 10.1080/14753820.2018.1464260)[Book Review]

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2018) Quim Monzó. Literary Encyclopedia, 1.6.2(.02),

2017

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2017) La dreta, l’independentisme i els intel·lectuals. Núvol, 15 Mar.

2016

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2016) Men in crisis: pornographic images in Quim Monzó’s fiction. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 93(5), pp. 549-565. (doi: 10.3828/bhs.2016.33)

2014

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2014) A Companion to Catalan Culture, edited by Dominic Keown. Journal of Catalan Studies, 17, vi-viii. [Book Review]

2013

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2013) In/dependents: Dones i projectes nacionals, edited by Montserrat Palau and Agnès Toda. Journal of Catalan Studies, 16, vi-viii. [Book Review]

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Number of items: 26.

Articles

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2023) ‘Mallorca se hunde’: turismo y trauma en la cultura mallorquina actual. elDiario.es, 19 Jul.

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2023) ‘Mallorca s’enfonsa’: turisme i trauma a la cultura mallorquina actual. Nosaltres(11), pp. 20-21.

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2022) Quim Monzó. El País, 7 October.

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2020) COVID summer of 2020: from overtourism to no-tourism in Southern Europe. Brave New Europe, 22 Dec.

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2019) Mass tourism as cultural trauma: an analysis of the Majorcan comics Els darrers dies de l’Imperi Mallorquí (2014) and Un infern a Mallorca (La decadència de l’Imperi Mallorquí) (2018). Studies in Comics, 10(1), pp. 49-71. (doi: 10.1386/stic.10.1.49_1)

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2018) Què en fem, de la cultura de la normalització? Núvol, 23 Sep.

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2018) Quim Monzó. Literary Encyclopedia, 1.6.2(.02),

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2017) La dreta, l’independentisme i els intel·lectuals. Núvol, 15 Mar.

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2016) Men in crisis: pornographic images in Quim Monzó’s fiction. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 93(5), pp. 549-565. (doi: 10.3828/bhs.2016.33)

Books

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2021) Quim Monzó and Contemporary Catalan Culture (1975–2018): Cultural Normalization, Postmodernism and National Politics. Series: Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone cultures (45). Legenda: Cambridge. ISBN 9781781883921

Book Sections

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2024) The representation of the "forasters" by the Majorcan Literary Generation of the 1970s. In: Fernàndez, Josep-Anton (ed.) The Other Catalans: Representations of Immigration in Catalan Literature. Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, pp. 57-80. ISBN 9781837721566

Fusari, Sabrina and Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2024) Introduction. In: Fusari, Sabrina and Colom-Montero, Guillem (eds.) Linguacultural Spaces. Inclusion, Extension and Identification in Language and Society. Series: Quaderni del CeSLiC Occasional Papers Monografie, M3 (45). Centro di Studi Linguistico-Culturali (CeSLiC), Universita Di Bologna: Bologna, pp. 1-4. ISBN 9788854971554

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2024) Contemporary Majorcan culture and the transnational tourist gaze: colonial dynamics, cultural identity and spatial dispossession. In: Miguélez-Carballeira, Helena (ed.) Postcolonial Spain Coloniality, Violence and Independence. Series: Iberian and Latin American studies. University of Wales Press: Cardiff, pp. 111-129. ISBN 9781837721054

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2022) Turisme i trauma cultural a Els Carnissers. In: Guillem Frontera. Un escriptor, un món. Ensiola: Muro, pp. 89-113. ISBN 9788412499537

Book Reviews

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2024) ‘Mosturito’, de Daniel Ruiz: cómo aprender a sobrevivir en la España de los ochenta. El País, 11 Sep. [Book Review]

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2023) Rafael, o la España ochentera del turismo, el ladrillo y la picaresca. El País, 23 Dec. [Book Review]

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2023) Identitats culturals contemporànies: el cas català. Editat per Maria Àngels Francés Díezi Irene Mira-Navarro. Kassel: Edition Reichenberger. 2022. vii + 195 pp. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 100(6), pp. 935-936. (doi: 10.1080/14753820.2023.2266259)[Book Review]

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2022) Els marges dels mapes: una geografia desplaçada, by Àlex Matas Pons. Catalan Review, 36(1), pp. 199-201. (doi: 10.3828/catr.36.10)[Book Review]

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2022) L’oracle: terror i tendresa al Chthulucè. Els Marges(127), pp. 102-104. [Book Review]

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2018) Catalan Cartoons: A Cultural and Political History, by Rhiannon McGlade. Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, 2(1), pp. 137-166. (doi: 10.1080/24741604.2018.1463763)[Book Review]

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2018) Josep Renau and the Politics of Culture in Republican Spain, 1931–1939. Re-imagining the Nation, by Carl-Henrik Bjerström. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 95(1), pp. 168-170. (doi: 10.1080/14753820.2018.1464260)[Book Review]

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2014) A Companion to Catalan Culture, edited by Dominic Keown. Journal of Catalan Studies, 17, vi-viii. [Book Review]

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2013) In/dependents: Dones i projectes nacionals, edited by Montserrat Palau and Agnès Toda. Journal of Catalan Studies, 16, vi-viii. [Book Review]

Edited Books

Fusari, Sabrina and Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (Eds.) (2024) Linguacultural Spaces. Inclusion, Extension and Identification in Language and Society. Series: Quaderni del CeSLiC Occasional Papers Monografie. Centro di Studi Linguistico-Culturali (CeSLiC), Universita Di Bologna: Bologna. ISBN 9788854971554

Audio

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2024) Stories from Glasgow: Season 4, Episode 1 – Overtourism. [Audio]

Film

Colom-Montero, Guillem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-3888 (2024) Revelando Casa Planas con Guillem Colom. [Film]

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Grants

• Engagement events ‘Overtourism in Scotland’, film screening and public debate with local activists in Skye and Caithness, College of Arts & Humanities Impact Development and Evaluation Fund (£1140), April and June 2025.


• Engagement Event ‘Overtourism & Local Communities in Europe’, with academics, community activists, writers and speakers from the public sector, The Dear Green Bothy (£1500) & Glasgow Knowledge Exchange Small Grants (£1220), June 2024.


• Event: ‘Overtourism in Majorca’, screening of the Majorcan documentary film ‘Overbooking’ and Q&A with the film’s director, Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, The Dear Green Bothy (£1000,), April 2023.


• Reading Clubs ‘Tourism and Cultural Trauma in Contemporary Majorcan Culture’, with grassroots activists and community associations, Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland's (£480), June and July 2022.


• Event ‘Pedro Almodóvar Day’, Chagford Film Festival, Devon, Embassy of Spain in the United Kingdom (£450), 2018.

 

Supervision

I am delighted to hear from individuals wishing to pursue postgraduate study in the following areas:

  • Literary, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Tourism in Spain and across Europe.
  • Contemporary Catalan Literature, Culture and Politics.
  • Contemporary Hispanic Literature, Cinema and Comic Art.
  • Comparative Literature.
  • National Identities in Spain in Literature and Culture.

 

  • Li, Keni
    Senior Lecturer in Spanish (Hispanic Studies)

 

 

Teaching

 I teach on a number of courses in Hispanic Studies, Comparative Literature and Spanish language:

· Tourism and Culture in Spain from the 1950s to the Present Day (Honours course, convenor)

. Text/Image Cultures: Theory and Practice (Honours course, co-taught )

. Narrating the City: Representation of Urban Space in Literature and Film (Honours course, co-taught)

· Hispanic Studies Dissertation

· Spanish Culture 1

· Spanish Culture 2

· Junior Honour Spanish (convenor)

 

 

Additional information

Awards & Distinctions:

In September 2025, my project ‘Overtourism in Spain and Scotland – a community approach' was shortlisted for Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the 2025 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards. More info here.

 Editorial Boards:

• 2025– : Catalan Studies Series, Anthem Press

• 2025– : Catalan Literature and Culture Editor, The Literary Encyclopaedia

• 2021– : Journal of Catalan Studies

• 2021– : OCEÁNIDE – Journal of the Spanish Society for the Study of Popular Culture

• 2015–2021: Reviews Editor, Journal of Catalan Studies

Professional & Learned Societies:

• 2024– : Honorary Secretary, Anglo-Catalan Society

• 2021– : Publicity Officer, Modern Humanities Research Association

Invited Talks & Visiting Scholarships:

I have delivered invited talks and lectures at the Universities of Toronto, British Columbia, Durham, Birmingham, Barcelona, Queen Mary London, Strathclyde, Open University of Catalonia, Alacant and Balearic Islands, as well as at the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Institut Ramon Llull and Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics.

• Visiting Scholar, University of Toronto, Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria College, 8–14 January 2024.

Public & Media Engagement:

A defining feature of my work is the regular dissemination of my research beyond academia through public engagement and media outreach. I strive to make my work accessible and relevant to wider audiences, fostering dialogue between academia, the general public and the communities my research engages with, from grassroots activists and creative practitioners to writers and cultural organisations in diverse cultural and linguistic contexts.

Here you can find a list of my public and media engagement activities. You can also follow my work on Instagram as   @Guillem__Colom and X as @guillemcm.


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