Professor Beth Holmgren is Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University. A Russianist with a secondary specialization in Polish literature and culture, her research combines close textual analysis with socio-cultural history and focuses on less-explored subfields of modern Russian and Polish cultures - gender studies, creative nonfiction, relations between culture and the market, and performing arts history. Prof. Holmgren's many publications include Women's Works in Stalin's Time: On Lidiia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam (1993), and Poles Apart: Women in Modern Polish Culture (2006), co-edited with Professor Helena Goscilo. In 2008, she co-produced the film Twenty Years Forward? The Contents and Discontents of Modern Russian Feminism. Prof. Holmgren is currently writing a monograph of Helena Modjeska; On Tour with Madame Modjeska: Polish Actress, American Star, to be published in early 2010 by Indiana University Press.