Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner

Discover the dynamic history of Soviet literary journals in Subscribing to Sovietdom, an analysis of the ways journals shaped everyday life, sparked intellectual debate, and became enduring symbols of a unique cultural era.

Read more: bit.ly/47gCEiL #SlavicStudies @dr-tg.bsky.social

Folks, we started a journal! Send us your articles and reviews about queer culture in Central and Eastern Europe!

and meanings within the transnational pursuit of socialist politics. We welcome contributions that address different periods of state socialism (pre-WWII, post-WWII) and places within the Soviet Union, socialist Eastern Europe, or other parts of the world.

We invite papers that analyze the construction and (re)negotiation of communist/socialist internationalism through cultural institutions (e.g., periodicals, publishers) and practices (e.g., translation, layout design), focusing on the opportunities they created for local agency, forms,

We are looking for panelists for the 2025 ASEEES convention @aseees.bsky.social:

Provincializing Internationalism: Periodicals, Publishers and Practices

We are seeking participants for a panel or series of panels titled “Provincializing Internationalism.”

Any recommendations for affordable book scanners for home and office use? Our library doesn't have quite the right options that will help me digitize materials for some small-scale data sets...

University of Toronto Press - Subscribing to Sovietdom In the Soviet Union, literary journals were ubiquitous. Citizens read these so-called thick journals on crowded buses and debated the most recent issue with ...

My book is on @uoftpress.bsky.social 's website, so it must be real. Out in May 2025, stay tuned!!

Just accepted a grant to develop an interdisciplinary class "Cultures of Manufacturing" with a study abroad component in the Czech Republic. The goal is to triangulate intercultural competence, studying how culture is shaped by (post-)industrial modernity, and Czech studies... Should be fun!

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I love conferences but have always felt ambivalent about the MLA (English/US-centric). But from #mla25 I carry impressions that make me not want to go back again:

ad-hominem attacks and defamation, the yelling that could be heard down the hallway across panels, “from the river to the sea” signs

Did you approach the colleague directly and offer advice? If not, I wonder how they would feel if they saw this post featuring their slides…

My goal on here for the spring: share about my teaching. Queer Comrades: LGBTQ+ Lives in Eastern Europe. Day 1: Roster. 52 students have signed up to learn about East European queer history in the 20th century. How exciting is that?

Yes and yes. But you knew that already. Looking forward to our panel!

I keep thinking how my students would respond. The ones that reject ChatGPT: "duh!" The ones that use it (terrifying percentage, redacted): "Plausible is good enough, how cares about knowledge?" So, I feel like the underlying tenet doesn't fully work in our educational system and society anymore.

Convincing to me. But would it really be convincing to all of our students?

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An intro post! I am Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner (formerly only Gleissner).

I'm a professor of Slavic and East European culture in the Midwest, teaching and writing about:

print culture in the USSR and Czechoslovakia
digital humanities
queer culture
migration
and food.