I. ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND A. Margaret Eleanor Menninger Associate Professor B. Education: Ph.D. 1998 Harvard University History Art and Civic Patronage in Leipzig, 1848-1914 A.M. 1991 Harvard University History A.B. 1986 Harvard University History and The Muse Oppressed, the Muse cum Literature Undressed: Views of Female laude Sexuality in German Cabaret, 1901-1903 C. University Experience: Associate Professor Texas State University 2006-present Assistant Professor Texas State University 2000-2006 Lecturer The Pennsylvania State University 1999-2000 Tutor Harvard University 1994-1998 D. Relevant Professional Experience: E. Executive Director, German The German Studies Association is the multi- and 2021- interdisciplinary association of scholars in German, Austrian, Studies Association and Swiss history, literature, culture studies, political science, 2026 F. (thegsa.org) and economics. GSA holds an annual conference and publishes a scholarly journal, the German Studies Review. Members are generally professors and advanced students at universities and colleges in North America, although there are several hundred members in Europe and Asia. Membership is open to anyone. Member of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Manuscript Editor and DÆDALUS, Journal of the American 1990- Subsidiary Rights Manager Academy of Arts and Sciences 1992 (Cambridge, MA Bertelsmann Foundation Intern Carl Hanser Verlag (Munich, FRG) 1990 Foreign Rights Specialist and Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, MA) 1987- Permissions Editor 1990 II. TEACHING A. Teaching Honors and Awards: Texas State University, Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, 2014 and 2015 Texas State University, Presidential Distinction Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2013 Texas State University, Presidential Distinction Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2012 Texas State University, College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Excellence Award in Teaching, 2005 Texas State University, College of Liberal Arts Dean’s Excellence Award in Teaching, 2004 Honors Program (Texas State) Honors Professor of the Year, 2002 Phi Alpha Theta, Sigma Zeta Chapter (Texas State) Outstanding Professor of the Year, 2001 B. Courses Taught: 1. Texas State University History 2312 – World History since the Seventeenth Century History 2320 – Western Civilization since 1500 History 2320 (Honors) – Western Civilization since 1500 through “Musicking” History 3310 – Europe 1815-1919 History 3311 – Europe since 1919 History 3316 – England since 1603 HON 3393J – Sex, Drugs and Cabaret: Europe, 1880-1914 HON 3390V – Freud in Vienna History 4336 – Germany, 1815-2000 History 4337 – Germany and National Socialism, 1918-1945 History 4350w – The Great War, 1914-1918 History 4399 – Senior Seminar History 5310 – Europe 1815-present (graduate course) Examples of annual themes: Europe, 1815-present; Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century; Germany since 1918; Germany 1918-1945 History 5361 – General Historiography (graduate course) History 5390 – Directed Studies (graduate course) 2. The Pennsylvania State University History 120 – Europe 1848-2000 History 143 – Hitler and Nazi Germany, 1918-1945 History 302w – Modernism in Vienna and Munich, 1890-1914 History 420 – Europe since 1870 History 427 – Germany since 1860 3. Harvard University Junior Honors Tutorial for History Majors – Mechanics of original research, including library and archival research Sophomore Honors Tutorial for History Majors – Methods of critical reading with units in: American Slavery, Church and Society in Medieval Europe, German National Socialism, and Historiography. C. Graduate Theses/Dissertations, Honors Theses or Exit Committees: Robert Anzenberger, Finland’s Path to Independence After World War II (MA thesis, third reader) Daniel Humada (Chair, Generals Committee) Kathryn L. Meehan, Performing the Laboring Class: The Evolution of Punch and Judy Performance (for the Degree Master of Arts in Theatre History and Criticism, 2014, third reader) Alexandra Warner, For Honor and Country: Understanding the Link between Football Hooliganism and Nationalism (Honors Thesis, 2013, second reader) Elissa Erin Myers, The Politics of Place: Urban Feminism in the Late Works of Amy Levy (Honors Thesis, 2013, second reader) William Edward Smith, A Race for Superiority in the English Channel: Naval Theory, Strategy, and Diplomacy, 1870-1914 (Honors Thesis, 2012, second reader) Kathryn L. Meehan, Immigrants via Popular Culture: A Study of the Portrayal of Various Immigrant Cultures in Vaudeville (Honors Thesis, 2012, second reader) Jenny Katherine Jarrard, Contagious Disease: The Rise and Fall of Nineteenth-Century British Prostitution Regulation (Honors Thesis, 2010, supervisor) 2 -- Margaret Eleanor Menninger Michael Stanley Morowski, Nazi Racial Policy and Foreign Workers: Gestapo Activities Towards Polish Laborers in the Rhine-Ruhr, 1939-1944 (for the Degree Master of Arts in History, 2003, supervisor) D. Courses Prepared and Curriculum Development: 1. Texas State University – San Marcos History 2320 – Western Civilization since 1500 through “Musicking” History 4350W – The Great War History 5361 – General Historiography History 4399 – Senior Seminar on European History HIST 3310 – History of Europe, 1815-1919 HON 3390V – Freud in Vienna History 5310 – Europe 1815-present HON 3393J – Sex, Drugs and Cabaret: Europe, 1880-1914 History 4337 – Germany and National Socialism, 1918-1945 2. The Pennsylvania State University History 302w – Modernism in Vienna and Munich, 1890-1914 G. Funded Internal Teaching Grants and Contracts: NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities (2015-2018) H. Submitted, but not Funded, Internal Teaching Grants and Contracts: NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities (2011) I. Other Co-Author of the 2016-2017 Common Experience: “Century of Conflict: Dialogues on the U.S. Experience of War since 1917“ III. SCHOLARLY/CREATIVE A. Works in Print: 1. Books c. Edited Books The Total Work of Art: Foundations, Articulations, and Inspirations, David Imhoof, Margaret Eleanor Menninger and Anthony J. Steinhoff, eds. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2016) http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=ImhoofTotal d. Chapters in Books: “Introduction,” in The Total Work of Art: Foundations, Articulations, and Inspirations, David Imhoof, Margaret Eleanor Menninger and Anthony J. Steinhoff, eds. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2016), 1-27. “The Will to Heal: Gesamtkunstwerk and Memorial Music since 1945,” with Julia Goodwin, in The Total Work of Art: Foundations, Articulations, and Inspirations, David Imhoof, Margaret Eleanor Menninger and Anthony J. Steinhoff, eds. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2016), 295-329. “Zivilgesellschaft jenseits der Bühne: Theater, Bildung und bürgerliches Mäzenatentum” in Zivilgesellschaft und historischer Wandel. Studien zum 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Ralph Jessen, Sven Reichardt and Ansgar Klein, Eds. (Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 2004), 175-194. 3 -- Margaret Eleanor Menninger “The serious matter of true joy: music and cultural philanthropy in Leipzig, 1781-1933” in Philanthropy, Patronage and Civil Society: Lessons from Germany, the United States, Britain and Canada, Thomas Adam, Ed. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 120-137. “Kulturelle Eliten in Leipzig im 19. Jahrhundert” in Kulturpolitik und Stadtkultur in Leipzig und Lyon, Thomas Höpel, Ed. (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2004), 83-101. “Städtische Kunstförderung, das sächsische Unternehmertum und der kaufmännische Geist Leipzigs am Beispiel des Grassi-Museums 1880-1900,” in Unternehmer in Sachsen, Aufstieg—Krise—Untergang—Neubeginn, Ulrich Heß, Petra Listewnik and Michael Schäfer, Eds. (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag 1998), 97-105. 2. Articles: a. Refereed Journal Articles: “The Classroom as a ‘Total Work of Art’: Pedagogy, Performance and Gesamtkunstwerk” in Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal Vol. 3 No. 3 (2011), 97-103. “Kulturelle Philanthropy im Leipzig des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts” in Comparativ 11 (2001), Heft 5/6, 30-51. 6. Book reviews: Sovereign Feminine: Music and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Germany by Matthew Head, in The European Legacy, Volume 23, Issue 5 (February 2018), pp. 590-592. The Necessity of Music: Variations on a German Theme by Celia Applegate in Central European History, Vol. 50, No. 3 (September 2017), pp. 410-412. A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker in The Historian, Vol. 76, No. 2 (2014), pp. 434-435. Das Dienstfräulin auf dem Bahnhof: Frauen im öffentlichen Raum im Blick der Berliner Bahnhofsmission 1894-1939 by Astrid Mignon Kirchof on the Listserve H-German (May 2014). Wagner beyond Good and Evil by John Deathridge in The European Legacy, Vol. 15, No. 6 (2010), pp. 819-820. Der Schritt in die Moderne: Sächsischer Adel zwischen 1763 und 1918 edited by Silke Marburg and Josef Matzerath on the Listserve H-German (February 2007) Schriften zur Erziehung and Amtlicher Schriftverkehr mit dem sächsischen Hof by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (edited by Matthias Ullmann with Eberhard Knobloch and Dagmar Hülsenberg); also Kolloquium aus Anlass des 350. Geburtstages von E.W. v. Tschirnhaus am 10. April 2001 in Dresden, edited by Dagmar Hülsenberg on the Listserve H-German (January 2007) Wilhelminism and Its Legacies: German Modernities, Imperialism, and the Meanings of Reform, 1890-1930: Essays for Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann edited by Geoff Eley and James Retallack in Germanic Review (2006) Volume 81 Number 2, 182-186. Sächsische Lebensbilder, Bd. 5: Quellen und Forschungen zur