Beth Holmgren
American literary critic and cultural historian
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Beth Holmgren's Degrees
- Bachelors Russian Language and Literature University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Beth Holmgren 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 , 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 and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . She earned her B.A at Grinnell College, and two master's degrees and and her doctoral doctorate at Harvard University .
Beth Holmgren's Published Works
Published Works
- Women's Works in Stalin's Time: On Lidiia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam (1993) (35)
- Russia--women--culture (1997) (28)
- Why Russian Girls Loved Charskaia (1995) (22)
- The Tragic Menagerie (1999) (17)
- Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland (1998) (15)
- The Russian memoir : history and literature (2006) (15)
- Toward an Understanding of Gendered Agency in Contemporary Russia (2013) (11)
- Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America (2011) (8)
- Americans experience Russia : encountering the enigma, 1917 to the present (2013) (5)
- A History of Women's Writing in Russia: Writing the female body politic (1945–1985) (2002) (5)
- Acting Out (2013) (5)
- The Blue Angel and Blackface: Redeeming Entertainment in Aleksandrov's Circus (2007) (4)
- The Art of Playing Patriot: The Polish Stardom of Helena Modjeska (2010) (3)
- Poles Apart: Women in Modern Polish Culture (2006) (3)
- The Russian Reading Revolution: Print Culture in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras (2002) (3)
- First-person liberties : the persona in the work of Witold Gombrowicz and Abram Terc (1987) (2)
- Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures : From the Bad to the Blasphemous (2016) (2)
- Cabaret Identity: How Best to Play a Jew or Pass as a Gentile in Wartime Poland (2014) (2)
- Cabaret Nation: The Jewish Foundations of Kabaret Literacki, 1920–1939 (2019) (2)
- Holocaust History and Jewish Heritage Preservation: Scholars and Stewards Working in PiS-Ruled Poland (2019) (2)
- Witold Gombrowicz within the Wieszcz Tradition (1989) (1)
- The Russian Memoir (2003) (1)
- Public Women, Parochial Stage: The Actress in Late Nineteenth-Century Poland (2005) (1)
- The Importance of Being Unhappy, or, Why She Died (2002) (1)
- The Polish-Language Cabaret Song: Its Multi-Ethnic Pedigree and Transnational Adventures, 1919–1968 (2018) (0)
- Warsaw 2013 (2013) (0)
- Sztuka kochania: Historia Michaliny Wisłockiej (The Art of Loving: The Story of Michalina Wisłocka). dir. Maria Sadowska, 2017. Warsaw: Agora SA, TVN SA, Orange SA, Watchout Studio, Plast Service Pack. 117 min. zł 29.99. (2020) (0)
- The Jews in the Band (2020) (0)
- Patronized Saints: the Cult of the Artist in Poland's Illustrated Weekly (1996) (0)
- Cabaret Nation (2019) (0)
- AFTERWORD: Nadezhda Mandel’shtam and Her American Interlocutors (2002) (0)
- Ellis Island: A People's History (2022) (0)
- The Mire and The Mire ’97. Dir. Jan Holoubek. South Africa: Showmax; Poland: Studio Filmowe Kadr, 2018, 2021. Dist: Netflix. 50 minutes. Color. (2021) (0)
- Power Relationships and Authorship (2019) (0)
- The Transfiguring of Context in the Work of Abram Terts (1991) (0)
- The Autobiographical Novel of Co-Consciousness: Goncharov, Woolf, and Joyce. By Galya Diment. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1994. xiv. 199 pp. Index. Hard bound. (1995) (0)
- WITOLD GOMBROWICZ IN THE UNITED STATES (2016) (0)
- Collecting the Show on the Road: Spotlight on Anna Mieszkowska and the Polish Cabaret Archive (2014) (0)
- Gender and Sexuality in Ethical Context: Ten Essays on Polish Prose. Ed. Knut Andreas Grimstad and Ursula Phillips. Slavica Bergensia 5. Bergen: Department of Russian Studies, IKRR, University of Bergen, 2005. 286 pp. Notes. Index. NOK 150.00, hard bound. (2007) (0)
- 'War, Women and Song': The Case of Hanka Ordonówna (2010) (0)
- Warsaw is My Country: The Story of Krystyna Bierzynska, 1928-1945 (2018) (0)
- Note on Place Names (2019) (0)
- Literary Exorcisms of Stalinism: Russian Writers and the Soviet Past. By Margaret Ziolkowski. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1998. xii, 190 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00, hard bound. (1999) (0)
- Stanisław Eile, Literature and Nationalism in Partitioned Poland, 1795–1918. London: St. Martin's Press, Inc./Macmillan Press Ltd, in association with School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 2000, ix, 237 pp. + index. (2002) (0)
- Warsaw is My Country (2019) (0)
- Rethinking the Biography of the Actor and Entertainer: Introduction (2022) (0)
- Cossack Cowboys, Mad Russians: The Émigré Actor in Studio‐Era Hollywood (2005) (0)
- The Jews in the Band: The Anders Army's Special Troupes (2020) (0)
- The Akhmatova Journals, vol. 1, 1938-41. By Lydia Chukovskaya. Trans. Milena Michalski and Sylva Rubashova. Poetry trans. Peter Norman. London: Harvill, 1994. vii, 310 pp. Index. Illustrations. Publisher's glossary. $27.50, hard bound (1995) (0)
- The Jews in the Band: (2020) (0)
- Framing "Anna Karenina": Tolstoy, the Woman Question, and the Victorian Novel. Amy MandelkerDostoevsky and the Woman Question: Rereadings at the End of a Century. Nina Pelikan Straus (1997) (0)
- Starring Madame Modjeska (2011) (0)
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