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About Beth Holmgren
- Beth Holmgren (born September 8, 1955) is an American literary critic and a cultural historian in Polish and Russian studies.
- She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University.
- Recognised for her scholarship in Russian women's studies and Polish cultural history (with a special emphasis on theater), she is as of July 2018 working on a multicultural history of fin-de-siecle Warsaw.
- Before coming to Duke, she taught at the University of California-San Diego (1987-1993) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1993-2007).
- She earned her B.A at Grinnell College, and two master's degrees (Soviet Studies) and (Slavic Languages and Literatures) and her doctoral doctorate at Harvard University (Ph.D.
- completed in 1987).Holmgren served as the president of ASEEES (2008), the largest North American organization in Slavic Studies, and president of the AWSS (2003-2005), the Association for Women in Slavic Studies.
- During her tenure at ASEEES, she wrote and produced, in collaboration with director Igor' Sopronenko, the film Modern Russian Feminism: Twenty Years Forward, which was first screened at the convention and then issued as a DVD.
- In addition to publishing extensively in major Russian and Slavic journals, she has published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Theatre Journal, Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Journal of Jewish Identities, the Russian-language journal Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, and the Polish-language journals Teksty drugie, Pamietnik teatralny,and Pamietnik literacki.
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