Tomáš Glanc, is a professor at Zurich University. Switzerland. Topics of his research include modern slavic literature, Russian culture,  performance in Eastern Europe, samizdat and the unofficial culture, scholarship and culture of Russian and Czech modernism (Roman Jakobson, avant-garde, transfer of theories), slavic ideology, contemporary Russian art and literature. 

2010 — 2015 he worked as a visiting professor at Humboldt University, Berlin (Institut für Slawistik), since 2011 visiting professor at Basel University, 2007 — 2010  Senior Fellow at the Bremen University, Germany (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa), 2005 – 2007 Director of the Czech Cultural Center in Moscow (Diplomatic service of the Czech Department of State), 2000 – 2003  Director of the Institute of Slavic and East European Studies, Charles University.