Diana Lewis Burgin is an author, and Professor of Russian at the University of Massachusetts Boston; she received her B.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.