Alyssa
Dinega Gillespie
Associate
Professor, Russian Language and Literature
Co-Director, Program in Russian and East European Studies
Faculty Fellow,
Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Professor
Gillespie graduated Phi
Beta Kappa from Brandeis University and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. (1998)
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She 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. Dr. Gillespie lived in Moscow and taught English literature in
Russian high schools for three years before completing her graduate
education.
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Mailing
address:
Office address:
Department
of
German and Russian
445
Decio Faculty Hall
318 O'Shaughnessy
Hall
tel. (574) 631-3849
University of
Notre Dame
fax (574) 631-8209
Notre Dame, IN
46556
email
gillespie.20@nd.edu
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