Background

David was born on December 4, 1952, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; son of Emil J. and Connie Gasperetti.

Education

David studied at Lawrence University and received a Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude) in 1976. He also received Master of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1978 and Ph.D. (Russian literature) in 1985.

Career

David began to serve at University of Tulsa, Tulsa as an assistant professor. From 1989 he worked at University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame as an assistant professor of Russian, later, an associate professor of Russian.

Gasperetti is also the author of ''The Rise of the Russian Novel: Carnival, Stylization, and Mockery of the West'' and other works. Prior to 1775, there were only twelve original Russian novels. The U.S. government’s monopoly on printing ended in 1783, but this did not result in a ground swell of creativity, and fiction continued to be mistrusted. In his book ''The Rise of the Russian Novel: Carnival, Stylization, and Mockery of the West'' Gasperetti shows how reader interest increased because of the work of three important writers who set the trend in literature during the era of Catherine the Great and led to the development of Russian prose fiction during the 1840s. These three authors include Matvei Komarov, Mikhail Chulkov and Fedor Emin.

David have contributed to Early Modern Russian Writers, Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and other periodicals. His late work includes Research of the Russian novel of the 1830s to 1850s and its cultural context.

Achievements

• David Gasperetti is a prominent writer and contributor to periodicals, including Russian Literature, Slavic and East European Journal, and Russian Review. His main theme - research of Russian literature, its trends. His most famous work is ''The Rise of the Russian Novel: Carnival, Stylization, and Mockery of the W.''

Works

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  • Reference Grammar for V Puti
  • The Rise of the Russian Novel: Carnival, Stylization, and Mockery of the West
  • Three Russian Tales of the Eighteenth Century: The Comely Cook, Vanka Kain, and "Poor Liza"

Membership

David is a member of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, American Association of the Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Father:

Emil J. Gasperetti

Mother:

Connie Gasperetti

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 181
• Slavic and East European Journal