Beth Holmgren
Professor of Polish and Russian Studies
Beth Holmgren, a full professor of Polish Studies and Russian Studies, has published widely on Polish literature, theater, popular culture, and film; Russian literature, film, and women's studies; and Russian and Polish artists and performers in the North American diaspora. Her recent scholarship focuses on Polish Jewish cultural history of the interwar period. Her most recent book, Warsaw is My Country
(2018), is a cultural biography of Krystyna Bierzynska, an acculturated Jewish Varsovian who survived the Holocaust and served as a 16-year-old orderly in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Holmgren was elected President of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in 2008 (this is the largest organization in the Slavic field outside the region) and elected President of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies for the 2003-2005 term. She is currently finishing her second stint as chair of Duke's Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies (2010-2015, 2016-2019). Holmgren holds secondary appointments in Theater Studies and Gender/Sexuality/Feminist Studies. She is listed as a core faculty member for Jewish Studies. For her updated curriculum vitae. see her site at academia.edu.
Current Research Interests
Theater history, Polish Jewish studies, Holocaust studies, Urban culture
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of Polish and Russian Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2007
Contact Information
- 316 Languages Building, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90259, Durham, NC 27708-0259
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beth.holmgren@duke.edu
(919) 660-3140
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Academia listing of complete cv and a number of publications
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Announcement about Wacław Jędrzejewicz History Award,
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Interview (in Polish) in connection with Waclaw Jedrzejewicz Award
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Presentation to PSFCU scholarship recipients in NY/NJ, June 2017
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Harvard University 1987
- B.A., Grinnell College 1975
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Duke Appointment History
- Chair in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016 - 2019
- Chair, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012 - 2015
- Professor of Theater Studies, Theater Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2014
- Chair, Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2012
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Academic Positions Outside Duke
- Professor and Chair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1999 - 2007
- Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1994 - 1999
- Associate Professor, University of California-San Diego. 1993 - 1994
- Assistant Professor, University of California-San Diego. 1987 - 1993
- Recognition
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Awards & Honors
- Waclaw Jedrzejewicz Award in Polish History. Pilsudski Institute, New York. March 31, 2017
- Oscar Halecki Prize . Polish American Historical Association. 2014
- Warsaw is My Country: The Story of Krystyna Bierzynska. Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Grant. 2014
- ASEEES Kulczycki Book Prize for Polish Studies (best book in any discipline, on any aspect of Polish affairs). Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies. November 2013
- Kulczycki Books Prize in Polish Studies. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 2013
- Heldt Prize for Best Book in Women's Studies. Association for Women in Slavic Studies. November 2012
- Honorable Mention, Barnard Hewitt Award. American Society for Theater Research. November 2012
- Senior Scholar Award. Southern Conference on Slavic Studies. April 2012
- Outstanding Contribution to the Profession. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. 2007
- Expertise
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Subject Headings
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Global Scholarship
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Selected Grants
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Holmgren, Beth. Warsaw Is My Country The Story of Krystyna Bierzynska, 1928-1945. Jews of Poland, 2018.
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Hashamova, Y., B. Holmgren, and M. Lipovetsky. Transgressive women in modern Russian and east European cultures: From the bad to the blasphemous, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315666259.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Chatterjee, C., and B. Holmgren. Americans experience Russia: Encountering the enigma, 1917 to the present, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203082102.Full Text
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Chatterjee, C., and B. Holmgren. Americans experience Russia: Encountering the enigma, 1917 to the present, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203082102.Full Text
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Holmgren, Beth. Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America. Indiana University Press, 2011.
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Goscilo, H., and B. Holmgren. Poles apart: Women in modern Polish culture, 2006.
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Goscilo, H., and B. Holmgren. Poles apart: Women in modern Polish culture, 2006.
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Holmgren, Beth, Beth, ed. The Russian Memoir. Northwestern University Press, 2003.
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Вербицкая, А. н. а. с. т. а. с. і. я., and Beth Holmgren. Keys to Happiness A Novel. Indiana University Press, 1999.
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Holmgren, Beth. Rewriting Capitalism. University of Pittsburgh Pre, 1998.
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Goscilo, Helena, and Beth Holmgren. Russia--women--culture. Indiana University Press, 1996.
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Holmgren, Beth. Women's Works in Stalin's Time. Indiana University Press, 1993.
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Academic Articles
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Holmgren, B. “Holocaust history and jewish heritage preservation: Scholars and stewards working in pis-ruled Poland.” Shofar 37, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 96–107. https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2019.0004.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Holmgren, B. “"Cabaret Identity: How Best to Play a Jew or Pass as a Gentile in Wartime Poland".” Journal of Jewish Identities July 2014, no. Issue 7, number 2 (July 2014): 15–33.Open Access Copy
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Holmgren, Beth. “Cabaret Identity: How Best to Play a Jew or Pass as a Gentile in Wartime Poland.” Journal of Jewish Identities 7, no. 2 (2014): 15–33. https://doi.org/10.1353/jji.2014.0014.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Holmgren, Beth. “Collecting the Show on the Road: Spotlight on Anna Mieszkowska and the Polish Cabaret Archive.” The Polish Review 59, no. 4 (2014): 3–3. https://doi.org/10.5406/polishreview.59.4.0003.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Holmgren, B. “The Lives of Secret Others.” East European Film Bulletin, August 2013.
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Blobaum, R., B. Holmgren, and E. Wampuszyc. “Warsaw 2013.” East European Politics and Societies 27, no. 2 (May 1, 2013): 185–86. https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325413479715.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Holmgren, B. “Acting Out: Qui pro Quo in the Context of Interwar Warsaw.” East European Politics and Societies 27, no. 2 (May 1, 2013): 205–23. https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325412467053.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Holmgren, Beth. “Toward an Understanding of Gendered Agency in Contemporary Russia.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38, no. 3 (March 2013): 535–42. https://doi.org/10.1086/668517.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Holmgren, B. “The art of playing patriot: The polish stardom of Helena Modjeska.” Theatre Journal 62, no. 3 (October 1, 2010): 349–71.Open Access Copy
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Holmgren, B. “War, Women, and Song: The Case of Hanka Ordonowna.” Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’S and Gender History 2 (2010): 139–54.
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Holmgren, B. “Taking Stock, Screening History: Twenty Years of Women’s Studies at AAASS.” Newsnet of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 49 (January 2009): 1–4.
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Holmgren, B. “"Od Booth-a do Modrzejewskiej: Wyrafinowany Szekspir na scenie amerykanskiej" ("From Booth to Modjeska: Refining Shakespeare for the American Stage").” Pamietnik Teatralny (Theatre Journal) LVIII (2009): 27–57.
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Holmgren, B. “Review of Knut Andreas Grimstad & Ursula Phillips, ed. GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN ETHICAL CONTEXT: TEN ESSAYS ON POLISH PROSE.” Slavic Review 66 (2007): 323–24.
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Holmgren, B. “The Blue Angel and blackface: Redeeming entertainment in Aleksandrov's Circus.” Russian Review 66, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 5–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9434.2006.00427.x.Full Text
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Holmgren, B. “Cossack cowboys, mad Russians: The émigré actor in studio-era Hollywood.” Russian Review 64, no. 2 (January 1, 2005): 236–58. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9434.2005.00359.x.Full Text
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Gheith, J., and B. Holmgren. “Art and prostokvasha: Avdot'ia panaeva's work,” December 1, 2003, 128–44.
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Holmgren, B. “Introduction.” Russian Memoir: History and Literature, December 1, 2003.
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Holmgren, B. “Nadezhda Mandel'shtam and her american interlocutors.” Russian Review 61, no. 4 (January 1, 2002): 531–34. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9434.00248.Full Text
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Holmgren, B. “Virility and Gentility: How Sienkiewicz and Modjeska Redeemed America.” Polish Review XLVI, no. 3 (2001): 283–96.
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Holmgren, B. “Those Unsettling Slavs, Or There's No Place Like Home.” Literary Studies East and West 11 (1996): 98–110.
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Holmgren, B. “Patronized saints: The cult of the artist in Poland's illustrated weekly.” East European Politics and Societies 10, no. 3 (January 1, 1996): 416–37. https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325496010003003.Full Text
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Holmgren, B. “Bug Inspectors and Beauty Queens: The Problems of Translating Feminism into Russian.” Genders 22 (1995): 15–31.
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Holmgren, B. “The Heart of the Matter? Nationalizing the Russian and Polish Romance.” Teksty Drugie (Texts 2) 3/4 (1995): 68–86.
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Holmgren, Beth. “Why Russian Girls Loved Charskaia.” Russian Review 54, no. 1 (January 1995): 91–91. https://doi.org/10.2307/130776.Full Text
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Holmgren, Beth. “The Transfiguring of Context in the Work of Abram Terts.” Slavic Review 50, no. 4 (1991): 965–77. https://doi.org/10.2307/2500476.Full Text
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Holmgren, B. “Rozmowy z Gombrowiczem.(Gombrowicz’s A Kind of Testament).” Pamiętnik Literacki (The Literary Journal) 1 (1990): 75–106.
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Holmgren, Beth. “Witold Gombrowicz within the Wieszcz Tradition.” The Slavic and East European Journal 33, no. 4 (1989): 556–556. https://doi.org/10.2307/308286.Full Text
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Book Sections
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Holmgren, Beth. “Cabaret Nation: The Jewish Foundations of Kabaret Literacki, 1920-1929.” In Poland and Hungary Jewish Realities Compared, edited by Francois Guesnet, Howard Lupovitch, and Antony Polonsky, 273–88. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 2019.
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Holmgren, Beth. “The Cabaret Song: Its Multi-Ethnic Pedigree and Transnational Adventures, 1919-1968.” In Being Poland A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918, edited by Tamara Trojanowska, Joanna Nizynska, and Przemyslaw Czaplinski. University of Toronto Press, 2018.
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Holmgren, Beth. “Tending Andersland: The Calling of Feliks Konarski and Nina Olenska.” In Diaspora Polska w Ameryce Polnocnej, edited by Rafal Raczynski and Katarzyna Morawska, 513–28. Gdynia, Poland: Muzeum Emigracji w Gdyni, 2018.
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Holmgren, B. “From the legs up: The rise and retreat of the chorus girl in interwar Poland.” In Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Bad to the Blasphemous, 13–29, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315666259.Full Text
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Holmgren, B. “Russia on their mind: How hollywood pictured the Soviet front.” In Americans Experience Russia: Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the Present, 105–23, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203082102.Full Text
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Holmgren, B. “The Polish Actress Unbound: Tales of Modrzejewska/Modjeska.” In The Other in Polish Theater and Drama, edited by Bill Johnston and Kathleen Cioffi, 57–77. Slavica Publishers, 2010.
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Holmgren, B. “Ne-natural’naia shkola:Semeistvo Tal'nikovykh Panaevoi.” In Trava: Punkty, edited by Sergei Ushakin and Elena Trofimova, 45–72. Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2009.
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Holmgren, B. “Jean de Reszke.” In POLISH-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, edited by James Pula, 2009.
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Holmgren, B. “Edouard de Reszke.” In POLISH-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, edited by James Pula, 2009.
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Holmgren, B. “Aristocrats and Working Girls: Towards a History of Russian Emigre Women in the United States".” In MAPPING THE FEMININE: RUSSIAN WOMEN AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE, edited by Hilde Hoogenboom, Catharine Nepomnyashchy, and Irina Reyfman, 231-47., 2008.
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Holmgren, B. “Settlling for the Real Hollywood: Russians in Studio-Era American Film.” In American Artists From the Russian Empire, edited by Yevgenia Petrova, 97–115. The State Russian Museum & The Foundation for International Arts and Education, 2008.
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Holmgren, B. “Evgeniia Ginzburg.” In Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, edited by Gershon D. Hundert. Yale UP, 2008.
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Holmgren, B. “Nadezhda Mandel’shtam.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography: Russian Prose Writers After World War II, edited by Christine Rydel, 302:164–71. Thomson Gale, 2008.
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Holmgren, B. “Fiction and the Acting Life: The Memoir of Helena Modjeska.” In Real Stories, Imagined Realities: Fictionality and Non-Fictionality in Literary Constructs and Historical Contexts, edited by Markku Lehtimaki, Simo Leisti, and Marja Rytkonen, 343-57. Tampere University Press, 2007.
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Holmgren, B. “Five short articles – "Nadezhda Mandelstam," "Liudmila Petrushevskaia," "GUM," "Lidiia Ruslanova," "Red Army Chorus".” In THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN CULTURE, edited by Karen Evans-Romaine, Helena Goscilo, and Tatiana Smorodinskaya. Routledge UP, 2006.
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Holmgren, B. “Public women, parochial stage: The actress in late nineteenth-century Poland.” In Poles Apart: Women in Modern Polish Culture, 11–35, 2006.
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Holmgren, B. “W domu u Sienkiewicza.” In Polonistyka Po Amerykansku: Badania Nad Literature Polska W Ameryce Polnocnej (1990-2005), edited by Halina Filipowicz, Andrzej Karcz, and Tamara Trojanowska, 301–15. Wydawnictwo, Warsaw, Poland: Instytut Badan Literackich PAN, 2005.
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Holmgren, B. “Imitation of Life: A Russian Guest in the Polish Regimental Family.” In Polish Encounters/Russian Identity, edited by David Ransel and Bozena Shallcross, 37–49. Indiana University Press, 2005.
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Holmgren, B. “America, America: Scouting the Routes of Translation.” In Living in Translation: Polish Writers in America, edited by Halina Stephan, 29–43. Rodopi Press, 2003.
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Holmgren, B. “Emigre-zation: American Picture Books and Russian Artists.” In KAZAAM! SPLAT! PLOOF! The American Impact on European Culture Since 1945, edited by Sabrina Ramet and Gordana Crnkovic, 219–33. Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
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Holmgren, B. “Writing the Female Body Politic (1945-1985).” In The Cambridge History of Russian Women’s Literature, edited by Adele Barker and Jehanne Gheith, 225–42. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Holmgren, B. “The Importance of Being Unhappy, or Why She Died.” In Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia, edited by Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger, 79–98. Duke University Press, 2002.
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Holmgren, B. “Ameryka, Ameryka, czyli jak zyc w przekladzie.” In Zycie W Przekladzie, edited by Halina Stephan, 17–33. Wydawnictwo Literackie, Krakow, Poland, 2002.
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Holmgren, B. “At Home with Sienkiewicz.” In Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self, edited by Bozena Shallcross, 219–36. Ohio University Press, 2002.
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Holmgren, B. “Helena Modjeska on the American Stage.” edited by Anna Litak and Bianka Kurylczyk, 2–3. The Helena Modrzejewska Theatre in Krakow, Poland, n.d.
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Holmgren, B. “"Nadezhda Mandelstam".” In YIVO ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE, edited by Gershon D. Hundert. Yale UP, n.d.
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Other Articles
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Holmgren, Beth. “Jerzy Jurandot.” Edited by Cristina Sandru and Roman Koropeckyj. Literary Encyclopedia, 2017.Link to Item
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Book Reviews
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Holmgren, Beth. “A Whole World of Mythology.” Edited by Jennifer Baumgartner. Women’S Review of Books. Old City Publishing, February 2019.
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Holmgren, Beth. “Their Own Wars: A Review of Svetlana Alexievich's THE UNWOMANLY FACE OF WAR: AN ORAL HISTORY OF WOMEN IN WORLD WAR II.” Women’S Review of Booksbbbbbb. Old City Publishing, December 2017.
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Holmgren, B. “The Cult of Forbidden Thoughts: The Big Green Tent by Liudmila Ulitskaya, translated by Polly Gannon.” Women’S Review of Books. Philadelphia, PA: Old City Publishing, July 1, 2016.
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Artistic Works & Non-Print Media
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Audio Recordings
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Video Recordings
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- ICS 262: Spies Like Us: Screening Cold War Espionage 2020
- LIT 225: Spies Like Us: Screening Cold War Espionage 2020
- SES 270: Spies Like Us: Screening Cold War Espionage 2020
- VMS 258: Spies Like Us: Screening Cold War Espionage 2020
- GSF 260: The Actress: Celebrity and the Woman 2019
- ICS 383: The Actress: Celebrity and the Woman 2019
- POLISH 102: Elementary Polish 2019
- POLISH 702: Elementary Polish 2019
- RUSSIAN 383: The Actress: Celebrity and the Woman 2019
- SES 490S: Special Topics in Slavic and Eurasian Studies 2019
- THEATRST 323: The Actress: Celebrity and the Woman 2019
- AMI 274: Spies Like Us: Screening Cold War Espionage 2018
- ICS 262: Spies Like Us: Screening Cold War Espionage 2018
- LIT 225: Spies Like Us: Screening Cold War Espionage 2018
- SES 270: Spies Like Us: Screening Cold War Espionage 2018
- VMS 258: Spies Like Us: Screening Cold War Espionage 2018
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- Conspiracy Begins at Home: Polish and Jewish Girls’ Schooling in Late 19th-century Warsaw.. Slavic and Eurasian Studies Division. Western Social Sciences Association Convention. April 27, 2019 - April 27, 2019 2019
- Poland Today: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated. Tepper Lecture Series. The College of William and Mary. February 21, 2019 2019
- The Lopek Dancing: The Jewish Foundations of Kabaret Literacki, 1919-1939. Book launch of Volume 31, POLIN series in Polish-Jewish Studies. The Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland. January 29, 2019 2019
- Casting and Marketing Jewish Stars: Al Jolson in THE JAZZ SINGER (1927) and Molly Picon in YIDL MITN FIDL (1936). ASEEES Convention. December 2018 2018
- The Country of Warsaw: Rethinking Urban History in Eastern Europe. Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. University of Kansas. January 30, 2018 - January 30, 2018 2018
- The Jews in the Show: Performing Poland for the Allies, 1942-1945. Oswald P. Backus/Anna Cienciala Memorial Lecture. University of Kansas. January 29, 2018 2018
- Comrades versus Flappers: How the Bolshevik Revolution Rolled Over Women's Lives, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness. Revolutionary World, 1917 and Beyond. West Virginia University, Slavic Studies. December 4, 2017 2017
- Motion Picture Portraits of the Savior: Malgorzata Szumowska's W IMIE... and BODY/CIALO. ASEEES Convention. November 2017 2017
- Tending Andersland: The Vocation of Feliks Konarski and Nina Olenska, 1942-1990. Poles and the Polish Diaspora in North America. Emigration Museum, Gdynia, Poland. September 21, 2017 - September 22, 2017 2017
- Theater as Necessity in the Warsaw Ghetto: Actors and Audience in Jerzy Jurandot's FEMINA, 1940-1942. Entertaining in Extremis: Popular Music and Performance in the European Camps and Ghettoes during World War II. Duke Humanities Futures. March 27, 2017 2017
- Sidling into Performance Studies in Russia and Poland. Advanced Seminar with Senior Scholars. AATSEEL Convention. February 4, 2017 2017
- Rebeka Does the Tango: The Jewishness of Interwar Polish Popular Culture. Carolina Seminar. UNC-Chapel Hill. November 10, 2016 2016
- From Vamps to Volunteers: Female Entertainers in the Polish Women's Auxiliary Service, 1942-1946. ASEEES Convention. November 2016 2016
- Rethinking Gender Roles at War: The Polish Women's Auxiliary Service, 1941-1945. International Gender Studies Conference. Interdisciplinary Research Foundation. June 24, 2016 - June 25, 2016 2016
- "The Polish II Corps in Mandate Palestine: Illusion and Escape, 1943-1944. International Polish Jewish Studies Conference. University of Illinois at Chicago. April 11, 2016 2016
- Women, Class, Performance: Helena Modjeska as Understudy and Impresario. Public lecture. University of Michigan. February 18, 2016 2016
- "Revolutionary Fun: The Polish-Language Literary Cabaret in Interwar Poland". Association for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies. November 2015 2015
- Banding Together Against the Cavalry: 'Polishness' and the Soldiers' Song in World War II. International Polish Jewish Studies Conference. Princeton University. April 2015 2015
- The Uses of Starlight: Female Entertainers in the Anders Army, 1942-1946. AWSS Biennial Conference. Association for Women in Slavic Studies. March 2015 2015
- The Showman Presents the Ghetto: Jerzy Jurandot's City of the Doomed. Loyola College Jan Karski Conference. Loyola College. September 19, 2014 2014
- From the Legs Up: The Rise and Fall of the Chorus Girl in Interwar Warsaw. Stefan and Lucy Hejna Annual Lecture. University of Illinois at Chicago. April 7, 2014 2014
- Improvising Poland on the March: Entertaining the Polish and Allied Forces in World War II. University of Chicago Central European Workshop. University of Chicago. February 25, 2014 2014
- Face Time Networking. November 22, 2013 2013
- Subversive Primers: Adult Art in Polish Children's Books. November 21, 2013 2013
- Ziminska and Her Boys: Backstage Warsaw. March 22, 2013 2013
- Reframing the Story: Hooks and Haunts. February 8, 2013 2013
- Shows of Solidarity: Cabaret in Interwar Warsaw. January 31, 2013 2013
- The Strange, But True, Adventures of Kazimierz Krukowski. November 17, 2012 2012
- Talk and reading from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA. April 22, 2012 2012
- Talk and reading from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA. April 21, 2012 2012
- Talk and reading from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA. March 8, 2012 2012
- Talk and reading from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA. March 7, 2012 2012
- Scapegrace Relics: Saving the Stars of Warsaw Cabaret. March 1, 2012 2012
- Talk and reading from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA. February 28, 2012 2012
- Talk and reading from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA. February 25, 2012 2012
- Modjeska and Polonia: readings from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA. February 2, 2012 2012
- Talk and reading from STARRING MADAME MODJESKA: ON TOUR IN POLAND AND AMERICA. January 19, 2012 2012
- Alien Takes: How Hollywood Screened the Russian War. December 3, 2011 2011
- Cabaret Makes the City: Warsaw in the 1920s. December 3, 2011 2011
- Framing Polish Jews: What Happens When Film Displaces Reality. December 1, 2011 2011
- Questions of Collaboration: Americans and Russian Feminism. November 2, 2010 2010
- The Art of Playing Patriot: The Polish Stardom of Helena Modjeska. September 16, 2010 2010
- The Backstory of Modern Russian Feminism. July 28, 2010 2010
- Russian Feminism: Twenty Years Forward. April 17, 2010 2010
- A Very Short Course on Russian Women's History. December 1, 2009 2009
- Book Talk discussant for Roman Koropeckyj's ADAM MICKIEWICZ: A LIFE OF A ROMANTIC. December 1, 2009 2009
- Modern Russian Feminism: Twenty Years Forward. December 1, 2009 2009
- On Tour with Madame Modjeska: Polish Actress, American Star. December 1, 2009 2009
- Presenting Madame Modjeska. December 1, 2009 2009
- Cataclysm, Nation, Self: An Endoscopy of Polish Lives. November 12, 2009 2009
- Helena Modjeska and the California Dream. November 1, 2008 2008
- The Lady and the Star: How Modjeska Conquered America. October 31, 2008 2008
- Reinvigorating the Paradigm: Russia and the West. March 28, 2008 2008
- From Immigrant to Settler: Helena Modjeska and the California Dream. February 22, 2008 2008
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Service to the Profession
- Organizer and chair of roundtable. Ad-Hoc Committee on Non-Academic Professions in the Field. Association for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies. November 2015 2015
- Tenure review -- Kansas University. September 30, 2013 2013
- Manuscript review, Northwestern University Press. June 2013 2013
- ACLS East European Studies, Dissertation Fellowships Evaluator. February 2013 2013
- UCLA Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures External Review. February 1, 2013 2013
- Full professor review, Duke University, Romance Studies. November 30, 2012 2012
- Full professor review, Indiana University. November 1, 2012 2012
- Manuscript review for SLAVIC REVIEW. November 1, 2012 2012
- Tenure review, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. November 1, 2012 2012
- Extraordinary review for full professor UCLA. December 3, 2011 2011
- Manuscript review for POLISH INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES OF AMERICA. December 3, 2011 2011
- Manuscript review for SLAVIC REVIEW. December 3, 2011 2011
- Tenure review (dean's level) for Princeton University. December 3, 2011 2011
- Tenure review for East Carolina University. December 3, 2011 2011
- Manuscript review for SLAVIC REVIEW. December 6, 2010 2010
- Tenure review for University of Virginia. October 31, 2010 2010
- Review of Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University. April 2010 - May 30, 2010 2010
- Review of Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University. March 5, 2010 - March 31, 2010 2010
- Manuscript reviewed. December 1, 2009 2009
- Associate to full professor review, Indiana University-Bloomington. November 1, 2009 2009
- Associate to full professor review, University of Maryland - College Park. November 1, 2009 2009
- Review of Indiana University's Russian and East European Institute. November 1, 2009 2009
- Meet the Editors: Advice to New and Seasoned Authors about Trends in Book Publishing : 2008 AAASS Convention. November 23, 2008 2008
- Beyond Academia: Career Paths of Professional MAs : 2008 AAASS Convention. November 22, 2008 2008
- Is There a Feminist Press in Central/Eastern Europe? Women's Voices in the Contemporary Media : 2008 AAASS Convention. November 22, 2008 2008
- Revisiting the Gender Question: Scholarship, Exchange, Experience : 2008 AAASS Convention. November 20, 2008 2008
- Manuscript review. May 1, 2008 - May 21, 2008 2008
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