Dr. Philip Gleissner joins Ohio State as an assistant professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures. He  recently defended his dissertation, a  study of  magazine culture   in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, at Princeton University. His research focuses on the migration of media. In his work, Gleissner applies digital humanities methodology as a tool for the exploration of the subversive potentials of print media that facilitated multidirectional exchanges of literature within socialist Eastern Europe and beyond.