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
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, 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.
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; ) describing her father's biography.
Works
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* "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
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Poetry
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Books
* ''Richard Burgin: A Life in Verse'', 1989, Slavica Pub,
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Translations
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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
References
External links
Reference guide to Russian literature By Neil Cornwell, Nicole Christian, page 614
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Harvard University alumni
Swarthmore College alumni
Living people
University of Massachusetts Boston faculty
American women poets
American women academics
21st-century American women
1943 births