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Lindsay Holmgren

Title: 
Associate Professor (Teaching), Strategy & Organization; Director, Laidley Centre for Business Ethics and Equity; Chair, Academic Integrity Council; Executive Council, International Society for the Study of Narrative
Lindsay Holmgren
Contact Information
Phone: 
514-398-7579
Email address: 
lindsay.holmgren [at] mcgill.ca
Alternate email address: 
nicoleta.anton [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Bronfman Building []
1001 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
H3A 1G5

Degree(s): 

BA, MA, PhD, English Literature

Area(s): 
Strategy & Organization
Office: 
317
Biography: 

With an MA and a PhD in English Literature from 91社区, Dr. Holmgren听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听include articles on听literary criticism, film, economics, medical pedagogy and practice, and narrative theory.听Especially important for Dr. Holmgren's current research听is the application of narrative theory听to the analysis of听literature, economic drivers, normative regional and national ideologies, and International Organizations. Her theoretical background听underlies Dr. Holmgren鈥檚 study of narrative in the economic arena听for which she holds an Insight Grant听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听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.

Specialization: 

Rhetoric and Ethics,听Narrative Theory,听 Economics, The International Monetary Fund, Narrative and Medicine

Courses: 

MGPO 450 Ethics in Management 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

MGPO 434 Topics in Policy 1 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

MGCR 460 Social Context of Business 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

MGCR 250 Expressive Analysis for Mgmt 3 Credits
    Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

Areas of expertise: 

Narrative Theory,听Rhetoric, Ethics, Economic Theory, English Literature听

Group: 
Faculty
CAS Professoriate
Selected publications: 

Holmgren, Lindsay. 2023. 鈥淭he Shape of Things to Come: An Interview with Lindsay Holmgren.鈥 DIEGESIS. 12.2.

Holmgren, Lindsay. 2022. "Narrative and Economic Modelling."听The听Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory. New York: Routledge: pp. 40-54.

Holmgren, Lindsay. 2021. "Narrative in the Economic Sphere:听The International Monetary Fund and the Scripting of a Global Economy."听Narrative. 29.2: pp. 192-209.

Holmgren, Lindsay. 2018. "Metafictional Amendments: Telepathic Metalepses in听Stranger听than Fiction." Narrative.听26.1: pp. 104-124.

Holmgren, Lindsay. 2016.听"Empathic Communications and Narrative Competence听in Contemporary Medical Education."听Enthymema. Special Issue on Narrative and Medicine. : pp. 90-104.

Holmgren, Lindsay. 2015.听"Knowing Maisie."听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 鈥楴arrative鈥 in Medicine."听Literature and Medicine. Special Issue on Narrative Medicine. 29.2: pp. 246鈥273.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

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,听Principal Investigator): $5000.00

91社区 SSHRC General Research Fund (GRF).听(2019-2021,听Principle and Sole Investigator):听$27,935.00

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant (2016-2019,听Principal Investigator):听$74,130.00

Fonds de recherche du听Qu茅bec sur la soci茅t茅 et culture,听Fellowship.听(2005-2009,听Principal and Sole Investigator): $45,000.00

Gloriana Martineau Fellowship. $5000听

91社区 Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Fellowships

91社区 Department of English Fellowships

Interviews: 

Lindsay Holmgren (interviewed by James Phelan). 鈥淎 Conversation about Ursula Le Guin鈥檚 鈥楾he Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.鈥欌 Project Narrative. December 2023.

The Honorable Mary K. Bush.听IMF, Former Alternate U.S. Executive Director.听

John Calvin Williams. IMF, Senior Economist in the Africa Department; Office of US Executive听Director听

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.听

Conferences: 

SELECTED PAPERS:

鈥淣arrative Theory Across Disciplines.鈥 Thirty-Eighth International Conference on Narrative. Dallas, Texas: March 1 鈥 4, 2023.

鈥淐onfronting Finitude.鈥 Thirty-Seventh Annual International Conference on Narrative. Chichester, England (remote participant): June 28-30, 2022.

鈥淐haracter and the Telepathic Mode, or, Telepathy and the Character Author.鈥 Thirty-sixth Annual International Conference on Narrative. Virtual. May 19 鈥 22, 2021.

鈥淐o-Constructed Narratives of the IMF.鈥 Thirty-fourth Annual International Conference on Narrative. Pamplona, Spain. May 29 鈥 June 1, 2019.

鈥淓mpathy in Theory and in Practice.鈥 Thirty-second Annual International Conference on Narrative. Lexington, Kentucky. March 23 鈥 26, 2017. (Invited panelist on Narrative and Medicine panel organized by Rita Charon, Columbia Medical School.)

鈥淭he IMF: Narrative and the Scripting of Monetary Policy.鈥 Thirty-First Annual International Conference on Narrative. Amsterdam: The University of Amsterdam. June 16 鈥 18, 2016.

鈥淪heri Fink鈥檚 Five Days at Memorial: The Rhetorical Challenges of Narrative Journalism.鈥 Thirtieth Annual International Conference on Narrative. University of Chicago, Northwestern, Purdue. Chicago, Illinois: March 5鈥8, 2015.

鈥淎rticulating Faces, Adapting Maisie.鈥 Sixth Annual Conference of the Henry James Society. The University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland: July 16 鈥 19, 2014.

鈥淢etafictional Amendments.鈥 Twenty-Ninth Annual International Conference on Narrative. MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts: March 26鈥29, 2014.

鈥淭elepathy After Royle.鈥 Unnatural Narratology. Twenty-Eighth Annual International Conference on Narrative. Manchester, U.K.: June 27鈥29, 2013.

鈥淜nowing Paul Dombey.鈥 Twenty-Seventh Annual International Conference on Narrative. Las Vegas, Nevada: March 15鈥17, 2012.

鈥淢cCullers鈥檚 Others.鈥 Tenth Annual Conference of the Society of the Space Between.

Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois: June 13鈥14, 2008.

鈥淓thics and Representations of Shared Consciousness.鈥 Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference of the College English Association. New Orleans, Louisiana: April 12鈥14, 2007.

鈥淛ustice and Multiple Subjectivity.鈥 Twenty-Second Annual International Conference on Narrative. Washington, D.C.: March 15鈥18, 2007.

鈥樷淢y scientific training spoiled it鈥: Consciousness and Scientific Narration.鈥 Twenty-First Annual International Conference on Narrative. Ottawa, Ontario: April 6鈥9, 2006.

鈥淪hared Consciousness in Modernist Narrative Prose.鈥 Seventh Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference. Roundtable panelist: 鈥淥ccult Abandonment in Modernist Epistemology.鈥 Chicago, Illinois: November 3鈥6, 2005.

鈥樷淭he Horrors of Distant Control鈥: Technology in Faulkner.鈥 Seventh Annual Conference of the Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. Montreal, Quebec: May 27鈥29, 2005.

鈥淭elepathy in James and Faulkner.鈥 Twentieth Annual International Conference on Narrative. Louisville, Kentucky: April 6鈥9, 2005.

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