Russian Program
Russian Program Faculty
The Russian Studies faculty at Notre Dame is committed to dynamic teaching and outstanding scholarship. This strength is evidenced by its distinguished publication record and its high ratings on student evaluations of teaching, which are consistently well above College and University norms.
David Gasperetti
Associate Professor of Russian
Ph.D. 1985, University of California, Los Angeles
Professor Gasperetti is the author of The Rise of the Russian Novel: Carnival, Stylization, and Mockery of the West (1998) and is currently working on a monograph tracing the Russian conception of novel writing from its origins in the 18th Century to the Golden Age of the novel in the mid-19th Century. His teaching interests include 19th- and early 20th-Century Russian literature, parody, and the relationship between narrative and systems of belief.
Office: 341 Decio Hall | Phone: 631-7697 | Email
Fall 09 Office hours MWF 2:00-3:00
Alyssa Dinega Gillespie 
Associate Professor of Russian and Co-Director, Program in Russian and East European Studies
Ph.D. 1998, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Gillespie is the author of A Russian Psyche: The Poetic Mind of Marina Tsvetaeva (2001) and the editor of Russian Literature in the Age of Realism (2003) in the series: Dictionary of Literary Biography. She has published articles on Tolstoy, Gorky, Pushkin, Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva, Brodsky, Pawlikowska, and Sep-Szarzynski, as well as translations of the poetry of Tsvetaeva, Khodasevich, Fet, and others. Her current major project is a study of crime and conscience in the writings of Alexander Pushkin. Her research and teaching interests include Russian and Polish poetry, gender issues in literature, the poetry of exile, and the psychology of poetic genius. She lived in Moscow and taught English literature in Russian high schools for three years before completing her graduate education.
Office: 345 Decio Hall | Phone: 631-3849 | Email | Home Page
Fall 09 Office hours Tuesday 3-5 & Thursday 9-10
Thomas G. Marullo 
Professor of Russian
Ph.D. 1975, Cornell University; M.B.A. 1989, Indiana University at South Bend
Beyond numerous articles and reviews, Professor Marullo is the author of If You See The Buddha: Studies in the Fiction of Ivan Bunin (1998). He is the editor-translator of Ivan Bunin. Cursed Days (1998); Ivan Bunin: The Liberation of Tolstoy. A Tale of Two Writers (2003); Ivan Bunin. About Chekhov. The Unfinished Symphony (forthcoming); as well as a "diary" of Bunin's life: Ivan Bunin: Russian Requiem (1885-1920)(1993), Ivan Bunin: From the Other Shore (1920-1933) (1995), and Ivan Bunin: The Twilight of Emigre Russia (1934-1953)(2003). At present, he is completing another edition-translation, On with the Show: Nikolai Nekrasov's The Physiology of Petersburg, and a monograph, Heroin(e) Abuse: Dostoevsky's Netochka Nezvanova and the Poetics of Codependency. He is also on the editorial board of the Slavic and East European Journal, and Director of Notre Dame's Program in Russian and East European Studies.
Office: 306 Decio Hall | Phone: 631-5061 | Email
Fall 09 Office hours Friday 9-12 & by appointment
Molly Peeney 
Assistant Professional Specialist of Russian
Professor Peeney graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1995 with majors in Russian and English. She earned her M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and expects to receive her Ph.D. in spring 2009. Her dissertation investigates responses to Soviet literature in a selection of Vladimir Nabokov's novels. She teaches Russian language and 19th- and 20th-century Russian poetry and prose.
Office: 309 Decio Hall | Phone: 631-4710 | Email
On Leave Academic year 2009-2010
Staff
Michelle Thornton
Administrative Assistant
Office: 318 O'Shaughnessy Hall | Phone: 631-5572 | Email
