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 as of July 2018[update] working on a multicultural history of fin-de-siecle Warsaw.

[1] 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.