Diana Lewis Burgin is an author, and Professor of Russian at the
University of Massachusetts Boston; she received her B.A. in Russian from
Swarthmore College, her M.A. & Ph.D. from
Harvard University's Slavic Languages and Literatures Department. She has been teaching Russian at University of Massachusetts, Boston since 1975.[1]
She is the daughter of
Richard Burgin and
Ruth Posselt, who married on July 3, 1940. She has published a narrative poem "Richard Burgin: A Life in Verse" (Slavica Pub, 1989;
ISBN0-89357-196-2) describing her father's biography.[2]
Works
"The Fate of Modern Man: Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward". Soviet Studies. 26: 260–271. 1974.
doi:
10.1080/09668137408410947.
"After the Ball is Over: Sofia Parnok Creative Relationship with Marina Tsvetaeva", Russia Review, Vol. 4, 1988
"Sofia Parnok and the Writing of a Lesbian Poets Life", Slavic Review, 51/2, 1992, pp. 214–231
Diana Lewis Burgin (July 1995). "Mother Nature Versus the Amazons: Marina Tsvetaeva and Female Same-Sex Love". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 6 (1). University of Texas Press: 62–88.
JSTOR3704438.
Jane T. Costlow; Stephanie Sandler; Judith Vowles, eds. (1998). "Laid Out in Lavender". Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture. Stanford University Press. pp. 177–203.
ISBN978-0-8047-3155-3.
Burgin, Diana Lewis (1985). "The Reprieve of Nastasja: A Reading in Verse". The Slavic and East European Journal. 29 (3): 269–278.
doi:
10.2307/307215.
JSTOR307215.
Books
Richard Burgin: A Life in Verse, 1989, Slavica Pub,
ISBN0-89357-196-2