DIANA GREENE, COLUMBIA GRADUATE, RUSSIAN LITERARY SCHOLAR, and NYU SLAVIC LIBRARIAN

Diana Greene, a retired literary scholar and Russian and Slavic Studies librarian, passed away on Sunday, August 17, 2025, after an illness. She was a graduate of our department, having defended her PhD dissertation in 1979. She went on to become an accomplished Russian literary scholar.  She authored several books: Insidious Intent: An Interpretation of Fyodor Sologub's The Petty Demon (Slavica Publishers, 1986); Women Writers in Russian Literature (edited with Toby Clyman, Greenwood Press, 1994); and Reinventing Romantic Poetry: Russian Women Poets of the Mid-Nineteenth Century (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014; Russian edition, Inoe litso romanticheskoi poezii: Russkie zhenshchiny-poety serediny XIX veka, Akademicheskii proekt, 2008). She worked at New York University as a Russian and Slavic Studies librarian. She was cherished for her erudite and nuanced scholarship, dedicated service, contributions to the academic community, professional and personal generosity and kindness.