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
Spring 2012 Office Hours: MWF 2:00-3:00 & by appt.
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
Spring 2012 Office Hours: T 10:30-12:30, W 11:45-12:45 & by appt.
Thomas G. Marullo
Professor of Russian
Ph.D. 1975, Cornell University; M.B.A. 1989, Indiana University at South Bend
Beyond numerous articles, papers, and reviews, Professor Marullo is the author of Ivan Bunin: Russian requiem (1885-1920) (1993); Ivan Bunin: From the Other Shore (1920-1933) (1995); If You see the Buddha: Studies in the Fiction of Ivan Bunin (1998); Ivan Bunin: The Cursed Days (1998); Ivan Bunin: The Liberation of Tolstoy (2003); Ivan Bunin: About Chekhov. The Unfinished Symphony (2007); Petersburg: The Physiology of a City (2009). At present, he has completed Heroine Abuse: Dostoevsky’s “Netochka Nezvanova” and the Poetics of Codepdency, and is writing Master or Man: Dostoevsky’s Alyosha Karamazov and the Prosaics of Orthodox Christianity and Fyodor Dostoevsky: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1821-1845). A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism. He is also on the editorial board of the Slavic and East European Journal.
Office: 306 Decio Hall | Phone: 631-5061 | Email
Spring 2012 Office Hours: F 8:00-11:00 & by appt.
Molly Peeney
Assistant Professional Specialist of Russian, Director of Undergrad Studies
Ph.D. 2010, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. 1995, University of Notre Dame
Professor Peeney’s dissertation, Contextualizing the Lonely Genius: Vladimir Nabokov and Soviet Literature of the 1920s and 30s, demonstrates how Nabokov was engaging with and responding to concurrent Soviet literature while he was writing his Russian novels in emigration in Berlin. More broadly, she is interested in Russian and European Modernism, focusing on issues of narrative and intertextuality. She teaches all levels of Russian language as well as 19th and 20th-century Russian poetry and prose.
Office: 309 Decio Hall | Phone: 631-4710 | Email | CV
Spring 2012 Office Hours: T 2:00-4:00, W 10:00-11:00 & by appt.
Staff
Dyann Mawhorr
Administrative Assistant
Office: 318 O'Shaughnessy Hall | Phone: 631-5572 | Email
