Lindsay Holmgren
BA, MA, PhD, English Literature
With an MA and a PhD in English Literature from McGill, Dr. Holmgren focuses her research on how language influences audiences and the responsibility that influence entails. Thus, her graduate work, which took philosophical and narratological approaches to literature, informs her teaching and research. Her publications include articles on literary criticism, film, economics, medical pedagogy and practice, and narrative theory. Especially important for Dr. Holmgren's current research is the application of narrative theory to the analysis of literature, economic drivers, normative regional and national ideologies, and International Organizations. Her theoretical background underlies Dr. Holmgren’s study of narrative in the economic arena for which she holds an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. A past president of the International Society for the Study of Narrative, Holmgren is honoured to serve as Conference Liaison, along with Dan Punday, of the Society.
Holmgren's current research project, H-CUE, combines her narratological and economic research areas. Philosophically and ideologically, the research is concerned with the relationship between COVID-19/Climate Change and the confrontation with finitude that these phenomena have engendered among Canadian university students and recent graduates. Using the narratological methods of linguistic anthropology, Holmgren and her team have interviewed over 400 students at five major research institutions across Canada, using qualitative and quantitative approaches to analyze their findings.
Rhetoric and Ethics, Narrative Theory, Economics, The International Monetary Fund, Narrative and Medicine
Narrative Theory, Rhetoric, Ethics, Economic Theory, English Literature
Holmgren, Lindsay. 2023. “The Shape of Things to Come: An Interview with Lindsay Holmgren.” DIEGESIS. 12.2.
Holmgren, Lindsay. 2022. "Narrative and Economic Modelling." The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory. New York: Routledge: pp. 40-54.
Holmgren, Lindsay. 2021. "Narrative in the Economic Sphere: The International Monetary Fund and the Scripting of a Global Economy." Narrative. 29.2: pp. 192-209.
Holmgren, Lindsay. 2018. "Metafictional Amendments: Telepathic Metalepses in Stranger than Fiction." Narrative. 26.1: pp. 104-124.
Holmgren, Lindsay. 2016. "Empathic Communications and Narrative Competence in Contemporary Medical Education." Enthymema. Special Issue on Narrative and Medicine. : pp. 90-104.
Holmgren, Lindsay. 2015. "Knowing Maisie." The Henry James Review. 36.1: pp. 64-80.
Holmgren, Lindsay, A. Fuks, D. Boudreau, T. Sparks, and M. Kreiswirth. 2011. "Terminology and Praxis: Clarifying the Scope of ‘Narrative’ in Medicine." Literature and Medicine. Special Issue on Narrative Medicine. 29.2: pp. 246–273.
Sustainability in Teaching Award. May 2024. Awarded for distinguished teaching in the arena of Sustainability in the Desautels Faculty of Management.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant. (2021-2026, Principal Investigator): $308,137.00
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant. (2023-2028, Collaborator): $129,048.00
Presidential tenure of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (nominated and elected): 2019 - 2022
Centre for Strategy Studies in Organizations Research Grant. (2020-2021, Principal Investigator): $5000.00
McGill University SSHRC General Research Fund (GRF). (2019-2021, Principle and Sole Investigator): $27,935.00
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant (2016-2019, Principal Investigator): $74,130.00
Fonds de recherche du Québec sur la société et culture, Fellowship. (2005-2009, Principal and Sole Investigator): $45,000.00
Gloriana Martineau Fellowship. $5000
McGill University Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Fellowships
McGill University Department of English Fellowships
Lindsay Holmgren (interviewed by James Phelan). “A Conversation about Ursula Le Guin’s ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.’” Project Narrative. December 2023.
The Honorable Mary K. Bush. IMF, Former Alternate U.S. Executive Director.
John Calvin Williams. IMF, Senior Economist in the Africa Department; Office of US Executive Director
Anoop Singh. IMF, Former Director of the Asia and Pacific Department; former Director of the Western Hemisphere Department.
Xavier Dolan: A Conversation about Narrative & Film.
SELECTED PAPERS:
“Narrative Theory Across Disciplines.” Thirty-Eighth International Conference on Narrative. Dallas, Texas: March 1 – 4, 2023.
“Confronting Finitude.” Thirty-Seventh Annual International Conference on Narrative. Chichester, England (remote participant): June 28-30, 2022.
“Character and the Telepathic Mode, or, Telepathy and the Character Author.” Thirty-sixth Annual International Conference on Narrative. Virtual. May 19 – 22, 2021.
“Co-Constructed Narratives of the IMF.” Thirty-fourth Annual International Conference on Narrative. Pamplona, Spain. May 29 – June 1, 2019.
“Empathy in Theory and in Practice.” Thirty-second Annual International Conference on Narrative. Lexington, Kentucky. March 23 – 26, 2017. (Invited panelist on Narrative and Medicine panel organized by Rita Charon, Columbia Medical School.)
“The IMF: Narrative and the Scripting of Monetary Policy.” Thirty-First Annual International Conference on Narrative. Amsterdam: The University of Amsterdam. June 16 – 18, 2016.
“Sheri Fink’s Five Days at Memorial: The Rhetorical Challenges of Narrative Journalism.” Thirtieth Annual International Conference on Narrative. University of Chicago, Northwestern, Purdue. Chicago, Illinois: March 5–8, 2015.
“Articulating Faces, Adapting Maisie.” Sixth Annual Conference of the Henry James Society. The University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland: July 16 – 19, 2014.
“Metafictional Amendments.” Twenty-Ninth Annual International Conference on Narrative. MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts: March 26–29, 2014.
“Telepathy After Royle.” Unnatural Narratology. Twenty-Eighth Annual International Conference on Narrative. Manchester, U.K.: June 27–29, 2013.
“Knowing Paul Dombey.” Twenty-Seventh Annual International Conference on Narrative. Las Vegas, Nevada: March 15–17, 2012.
“McCullers’s Others.” Tenth Annual Conference of the Society of the Space Between.
Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois: June 13–14, 2008.
“Ethics and Representations of Shared Consciousness.” Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference of the College English Association. New Orleans, Louisiana: April 12–14, 2007.
“Justice and Multiple Subjectivity.” Twenty-Second Annual International Conference on Narrative. Washington, D.C.: March 15–18, 2007.
‘“My scientific training spoiled it’: Consciousness and Scientific Narration.” Twenty-First Annual International Conference on Narrative. Ottawa, Ontario: April 6–9, 2006.
“Shared Consciousness in Modernist Narrative Prose.” Seventh Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference. Roundtable panelist: “Occult Abandonment in Modernist Epistemology.” Chicago, Illinois: November 3–6, 2005.
‘“The Horrors of Distant Control’: Technology in Faulkner.” Seventh Annual Conference of the Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. Montreal, Quebec: May 27–29, 2005.
“Telepathy in James and Faulkner.” Twentieth Annual International Conference on Narrative. Louisville, Kentucky: April 6–9, 2005.
