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; ISBN 0-89357-196-2) 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. University of Texas Press. 6 (1): 62–88. JSTOR 3704438.
• 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. ISBN 978-0-8047-3155-3.
• Katherine Bliss Eaton, ed. (2002). "Sofia Parnok and Soviet-Russian Censorship". Enemies of the people. Northwestern University Press. pp. 31–52. ISBN 978-0-8101-1769-3.

Poetry

• 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. JSTOR 307215.

Books

• Richard Burgin: A Life in Verse, 1989, Slavica Pub, ISBN 0-89357-196-2
• Diana Lewis Burgin (1994). Sophia Parnok. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-1221-4.

Translations

• Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov (August 1995). The Master & Margarita. Diana Lewis Burgin, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor. Ardis Publishers. ISBN 978-0-87501-067-0.
• Kornei Chukovskii (March 1982). Alexander Blok as Man and Poet. Diana Lewis Burgin, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor. Ardis. ISBN 978-0-88233-486-8.

Citations

• The Twentieth-century Russian Novel, David C. Gillespie, page 148
• A plot of her own, Sona Stephan Hoisington, page 144
• Pushkin and the genres of madness, Gary Rosenshield, page 209