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Name
  
Susan Manning


Role
  
Historian

Susan Manning wwwenglishnorthwesterneduimagespeoplefaculty

Books
  
Ecstasy and the demon, Poetics of Character: Transatla, Modern Dance Negro Da, The Puritan‑provincial vision, Fragments of union

Susan manning memorial lecture by prof naomi segal echic annual conference 2015


Susan Manning is a dance historian and Professor of English and Theatre at Northwestern University where she holds joint appointments in the English Department and Performance Studies. She is currently chair of English at Northwestern. Her first book, Ecstasy and the Demon, won the 1994 de la Torre Bueno Prize, while her second book, Modern Dance Negro Dance, received an Honorable Mention as Outstanding Publication from the Congress on Research in Dance. Manning has been the president of the Society of Dance History Scholars and is the convener for the Chicago Seminar on Dance and Performance.

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Publications

  • Modern Dance Negro Dance: Race in Motion (University of Minnesota Press, 2004)
  • Ecstasy and the Demon: Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of Mary Wigman (University of California Press, 1993)
  • References

    Susan Manning Wikipedia


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