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 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 , and the Polish-language journals , and . Provided by Wikipedia