Diana Burgin
About
Diana Burgin is a biographer, translator, Slavic philologist, poet-parodist and beginning violinist. A Professor of Russian language, literature and culture at the University of Massachusetts-Boston for over 30 years, she has won several awards for her scholarship and teaching and has also been awarded a Distinguished Service Award by the national Association of Women in Slavic Studies. Her most recent project, FIVE HARD PIECES – appearing here in electronic form for the first time – is a group of translations and original readings of five long poems by the 20th-century Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, on whose work Ms. Burgin has already published a book and several articles in Russian (available through Links to Works in Russian on the Scholarly Writing menu above). Currently, she is working on a biography of Ruth Posselt (1911-2007), world-renowned American violinist.
