Susan Manning is a dance

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

and Professor of English and Theatre at

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where she holds joint appointments in the English Department and Performance Studies. She is currently chair of English at Northwestern.Northwestern University faculty web profile
northwestern.edu 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 Congress on Research in Dance was a professional organization for dance historians in the United States and worldwide that was founded in 1964 and then merged in 2017 with the Society of Dance History Scholars to form the Dance Studies Associati ...

. Manning has been the president of the

Society of Dance History Scholars The Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS) was a professional organization for dance historians in the United States and internationally. Founded in 1978, it became a non-profit in 1983. SDHS became a member of the American Council of Learned So ...

and is the convener for the Chicago Seminar on Dance and Performance. Manning graduated from

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with a B.A. in 1978 (student-designed major in dance studies), and her Ph.D. from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

(in 1987) in a cross-departmental program between English and Theatre.

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)

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Society of Dance History Scholars
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