Professor Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner

Associate Professor

e-mail: tuxburyp@tcd.ie

In his teaching and research, Dr. Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to the study of East Central European and Russian culture in the 20th and 21st century. He has received his undergraduate education and his Magister Artium degree from the University of Kiel, Germany and his PhD from Princeton University. Before joining Trinity College, he was an associate professor at The Ohio State University.

Dr. Tuxbury-Gleissner’s work aims to further develop our understanding of East European cultures in their global contexts today by focusing on various historical and contemporary cultural forms and institutions, such as literature, film, print culture, and social media. He is particularly interested in the methods and theories of periodical studies, digital humanities, queer studies, media studies, and migration and transnationalism studies.

On these topics, Dr. Tuxbury-Gleissner has published edited volumes, articles and book chapters, and his recent monograph Subscribing to Sovietdom: The Lives of the Socialist Literary Journal. His volume Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in Times of Crisis, co-edited with Harry Eli Kashdan, which features essays on the experience of immigrants around the COVID-19 pandemic, has won the 2024 James Beard Media Award. He is one of the co-editors and initiators of the online journal Slavic Queer Studies.