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Boris Gasparov
Professor
Columbia University
Slavic Languages |
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Biography
Professor Gasparov received his education in linguistics and musicology in
Moscow. He continued his intellectual development in Tartu, Estonia, at
the time when Yuri Lotman and others were making that university the
world's center for original ideas about semiotics, linguistics, and
literature. He emigrated to the United States in 1981 and taught at
Berkeley for 11 years, before coming to Columbia where he is professor
of Russian, co-chair and founder of the University Seminar on
Romanticism, and a member of the Seminars on Linguistics and on Slavic
History and Culture. His books range from Slavic medieval studies and
comparative grammar to semiotic studies of oral speech, to Pushkin and
his time, to Russian modernism and twentieth century poetry. Music
remains deeply embedded in his teaching, scholarship, and personal
life. His book, Five Operas and a Symphony: Word and Music in Russian
Culture (Yale University Press, 2005), has received the ASCAP Deems
Taylor award. Gasparov’s ongoing projects include Speech, Memory, and
Meaning: Intertextuality in Every-Day Language, and a book on the Early
Romantic roots of modern theoretical linguistics.
Ph.D.: Moscow, 1965
Research Interests:
Slavic and general linguistics, Russian and European Romanticism, Russian literature and culture of the 20th century, music | |
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