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Diana Lewis Burgin

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Diana Lewis Burgin
Born (1943-08-03) August 3, 1943 (age 81)
Boston, Masscahuttes, U.S.
Occupation(s)Author, Professor, Poet
Years active1974-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; 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. 6 (1). University of Texas Press: 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.

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