Margaret Eleanor Menninger received her A.B. with honors from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1986. Menninger was a Rotary Scholar at Georg-August Universität in Göttingen in 1986-87. Upon her return to the United States, Menninger worked in publishing for both Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston and Carl Hanser Verlag in Germany. She received her A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991 and 1998 respectively where her research was supported by the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. Menninger has given papers at conferences in Canada, England, Germany and the United States. Her current projects includea study of the origins of arts funding and its relationship to civil society, regional identity and bourgeois culture in Saxony as well as shorter works on the nature of historical narrative and the idea of Gesamtkunstwerk. Menninger also has additional interests in the social history of music, cultural diplomacy and the history of Scandinavia, particularly Iceland. She is also an enthusiastic chamber musician.

Location

Austin, TX

Disciplines

• History
• Music and Musicology
• Performing Arts
• Visual Arts

Affiliation

Texas State University -- San Marcos