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{{short description|American historian}}

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'''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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2007152585/ |title=Susan Manning |publisher=worldcat.org |accessdate=August 11, 2017}}</ref> She is currently chair of English at Northwestern.<ref name="NW">[http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/manning.html Northwestern University faculty web profile], northwestern.edu</ref> 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.<ref name="NW"/>

Manning graduated from [[Harvard College]] with a B.A. in 1978 (student-designed major in dance studies), and her Ph.D. from [[Columbia University]] (in 1987) in a cross-departmental program between English and Theatre.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://societyoffellows.columbia.edu/fellows/susan-manning/|title = Susan Manning &#124; SOF/Heyman Profile}}</ref>

==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)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88157503/ |title=Manning, Susan |publisher=worldcat.org |accessdate=August 11, 2017}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080913011235/http://www.sdhs.org/index.html Society of Dance History Scholars]

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