Glanc Tomáš

Tomáš Glanc (b. 1969, Prague) specializes in the cultural history of eastern Europe. He works primarily as a university teacher and exhibition curator and occasionally as a translator and journalist.

Having completed his studies in Russian and Czech at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Glanc went on to write his doctoral thesis at the University of Konstanz. He subsequently returned to his alma mater, where he served as Director of the Institute of Slavonic and East European Studies from 2000 to 2003. After 2006, he served successively as Director of the Czech Centre in Moscow and as an academic at universities in Bremen, Berlin and Basel. He has been at the University of Zurich since 2014.

His book Souostroví Rusko: ikony postsovětské kultury [The Russian Archipelago: Icons of Post-Soviet Culture] (Revolver Revue, 2011) was included on the Czech Literary Centre’s list of Highlights of Czech Nonfiction 2007–2017.

This work was followed in 2026 by the comprehensive monograph Souostroví Rusko ve válce proti Ukrajině. Kultura a kontexty 2022–2025 [The Russian Archipelago at War with Ukraine: Culture and Contexts 2022–2025].

Ruská duše neexistuje [The Russian Soul Does Not Exist], a book-length interview conducted with Tomáš Glanc by Jan Bělíček, editor-in-chief of the online daily Deník Alarm, was published by Vyšehrad in 2025.

Works translated into: Chinese, Croatian, English, French, German, Polish, Russian.