Diana Lewis Burgin

Who is Diana Lewis Burgin?

Diana Lewis Burgin, is an author, and Professor of Russian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; 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.

She is the daughter of Richard Burgin, and Ruth Posselt who married on July 3, 1940. She had published a narrative poem "Richard Burgin: A Life in Verse" describing her father's biography.