Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner
dr-tg.bsky.social
Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner
@dr-tg.bsky.social
Scholar literature and culture in the USSR and East Central Europe

Educator, DH practitioner, James Beard Award winner, gardener, dilettante printmaker

Most recent book: Red Migrations. Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture after 1917
Reposted by 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
September 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Folks, we started a journal! Send us your articles and reviews about queer culture in Central and Eastern Europe!
Slavic Queer Studies
sqsjournal.org
February 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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.”
January 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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...
January 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
My book is on @uoftpress.bsky.social 's website, so it must be real. Out in May 2025, stay tuned!!
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 ...
utorontopress.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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!
January 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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
January 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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?
January 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Convincing to me. But would it really be convincing to all of our students?
In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...
A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT
Site web d’Arthur Perret, enseignant-chercheur en SIC.
www.arthurperret.fr
November 15, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Reposted by Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner
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November 9, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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.
November 13, 2024 at 12:58 PM