Beth Holmgren (ur. 8 września 1955) – amerykańska wykładowczyni akademicka, krytyczka literacka, tłumaczka.

Życiorys W 1975 r. ukończyła Grinnell College, gdzie uzyskała dwa tytuły magisterskie (literatura sowiecka oraz języki i literatura słowiańska), a w 1987 r. obroniła pracę doktorską na Harvard University.

Jest zatrudniona w Duke University, gdzie łączy obowiązki profesorskie z funkcją kierownika Katedry Slawistyki i Eurazji. Wcześniej pracowała na dwóch amerykańskich uniwersytetach: w latach 1987–1993 na Uniwersytecie Kalifornijskim w San Diego (University of California-San Diego) oraz – w latach 1993–2007 – na Uniwersytecie Karoliny Północnej w Chapel Hill (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

Do jej zainteresowań naukowych należy literatura, teatr polski, a także kultura popularna i kino. Interesuje się literaturą rosyjską, women studies, kulturą i historią Żydów.

Dodatkowa działalność Pełniła funkcję prezesa ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East Europen, and Eurasian Studies) oraz – w latach 2003–2005 – prezesa AWSS (Association for Women in Slavic Studies).

Nagrody

2017: Waclaw Jedrzejewicz Award in Polish History. Pilsudski Institute, Nowy Jork. 2014: Oscar Halecki Prize. Polish American Historical Association (PAHA). 2014: Warsaw is My Country: The Story of Krystyna Bierzynska. Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Grant. 2013: ASEEES Kulczycki Book Prize for Polish Studies (najlepsza książka naukowa w dyscyplinie). Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies. 2013: Kulczycki Books Prize in Polish Studies. Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. 2012: Heldt Prize for Best Book in Women’s Studies. Association for Women in Slavic Studies. 2012: Honorable Mention, Barnard Hewitt Award. American Society for Theater Research. 2012: Senior Scholar Award. Southern Conference on Slavic Studies. 2007: Outstanding Contribution to the Profession. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.

Wybrane publikacje Książki:

Holmgren, Beth. Warsaw Is My Country The Story of Krystyna Bierzynska, 1928-1945. Jews of Poland, 2018. Holmgren, Beth. Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America. Indiana University Press, 2011. Goscilo, H., and B. Holmgren. Poles apart: Women in modern Polish culture, 2006. Holmgren, Beth. Rewriting Capitalism. University of Pittsburgh Pre, 1998. Holmgren, Beth. Women’s Works in Stalin’s Time. Indiana University Press, 1993.

Wybrane rozdziały książek:

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, 273–288. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, 2019. 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, 513–528. Gdynia, Poland: Muzeum Emigracji w Gdyni, 2018. 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. 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. Holmgren, B. “Edouard de Reszke.” In POLISH-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, edited by James Pula, 2009. 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. 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. Holmgren, B. “Public women, parochial stage: The actress in late nineteenth-century Poland.” In Poles Apart: Women in Modern Polish Culture, 11–35, 2006. 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. 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. 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. Holmgren, B. “Ameryka, Ameryka, czyli jak zyc w przekladzie.” In Zycie W Przekladzie, edited by Halina Stephan, 17–33. Wydawnictwo Literackie, Krakow, Poland, 2002. Holmgren, B. “At Home with Sienkiewicz.” In Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self, edited by Bozena Shallcross, 219–236. Ohio University Press, 2002. 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.

Artykuły naukowe w czasopismach: 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. Blobaum, R., B. Holmgren, and E. Wampuszyc. “Warsaw 2013.” East European Politics and Societies 27, no. 2 (May 1, 2013): 185–186. Holmgren, B. “Acting Out: Qui pro Quo in the Context of Interwar Warsaw.” East European Politics and Societies 27, no. 2 (May 1, 2013): 205–223. 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): 139–154.

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