Diana Lewis Burgin [SEP] educated at
Diana Lewis Burgin
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.
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" (Slavica Pub, 1989
of Paul Hindemith's Violin Concerto in 1941. In 1944, Posselt premiered Aaron Copland's Violin Sonata with the composer at the piano.
She married violinist, concertmaster, and conductor Richard Burgin on July 3, 1940. Their son, Richard W. Burgin, is the author of numerous short-story collections and novels. Their daughter, Diana Lewis Burgin, is an author, Professor of Russian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
From 1958, Posselt performed on a 1732 Giuseppe Guarneri "Del Gesu" known as the