Diana Lewis Burgin
Diana Lewis Burgin | |
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| Born | August 3, 1943 Boston, Masscahuttes, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Author, Professor, Poet |
| Years active | 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; ISBN 0-89357-196-2) describing her father's biography.[2]
Works
[edit]- "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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "UMass Boston :: College of Liberal Arts :: Modern Languages - Faculty". Archived from the original on 2009-02-21. Retrieved 2009-04-12.
- ^ "RICHARD BURGIN: A LIFE IN VERSE by Diana Lewis Burgin. Foreword". Retrieved 29 September 2014.
