Susan Manning

Professor of English & Theatre

University Hall Room 406
Telephone: (847) 491-5120
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: s-manning@northwestern.edu

Susan Manning holds a joint appointment between English, Theatre and Performance Studies. Her research and teaching focuses on the history of twentieth-century theatrical performance, including dance, drama, and music theatre. Her first book Ecstasy and the Demon , examined the shift from modernist bodies to fascist bodies in the choreography of Mary Wigman, Germany's leading dancer between the two world wars. Ecstasy and the Demon won the l994 de la Torre Bueno Prize for the year's most important contribution to dance studies, and a second edition was released in 2006. She is also the author of Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion (2004), a study of changing relations between modern dancers and African-American choreographers in New York City from 1930 to 1970. Modern Dance, Negro Dance received an Honorable Mention as Outstanding Publication from the Congress on Research in Dance. Currently, Professor Manning serves as convener for the Chicago Seminar on Dance and Performance and as president of the Society of Dance History Scholars.

Publications by Susan Manning

Ecstasy and the Demon: Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of Mary Wigman

Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion

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