Diana Lewis Burgin Explained

Diana Lewis Burgin
Birth Date:	3 August 1943
Birth Place:	Boston, Masscahuttes, U.S.
Occupation:	Author, Professor, Poet
Period:	1974-present

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;) describing her father's biography.^[2]

Works

• The Fate of Modern Man: Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward. Soviet Studies. 26. 1974. 260–271. 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
• Mother Nature Versus the Amazons: Marina Tsvetaeva and Female Same-Sex Love. Diana Lewis Burgin. Journal of the History of Sexuality. 6. 1. July 1995. 62–88. 3704438. University of Texas Press .
• Book: Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture . Jane T. Costlow . Stephanie Sandler . Judith Vowles. Laid Out in Lavender. 177–203. Stanford University Press. 1998. 978-0-8047-3155-3 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=qXHw3Uzh5qQC&q=Diana+Lewis+Burgin&pg=PA31. Enemies of the people . Katherine Bliss Eaton. Sofia Parnok and Soviet-Russian Censorship . 31–52 . Northwestern University Press . 2002. 978-0-8101-1769-3 .

Poetry

• 10.2307/307215. 307215. Burgin, Diana Lewis. The Reprieve of Nastasja: A Reading in Verse. The Slavic and East European Journal. 29. 3. 269–278. 1985 .

Books

• Richard Burgin: A Life in Verse, 1989, Slavica Pub,
• Book: Sophia Parnok . Diana Lewis Burgin. NYU Press. 1994. 978-0-8147-1221-4 .

Translations

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

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

External links

• Diana Burgin website
• Reference guide to Russian literature By Neil Cornwell, Nicole Christian, page 614

Notes and References

1. Web site: UMass Boston :: College of Liberal Arts :: Modern Languages - Faculty . 2009-04-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090221082145/http://umb.edu/academics/cla/dept/modlang/faculty.html . 2009-02-21 . dead .
2. Web site: RICHARD BURGIN: A LIFE IN VERSE by Diana Lewis Burgin. Foreword. 29 September 2014.