Position:
Coordinator of Music Literature; Associate Professor, Music History & Literature
Pronouns:
she/her
Location:
Ruebush Hall, Room 204
Phone:
(540) 665-4596
Email:
lmcmanus@su.edu
Employed Since:
2011
Teaching Area(s):
Music Literature
Conservatory Professional Highlights:
Laurie McManus’s broad interests in aesthetics, gender, trauma, and the intersection of the arts inform both her teaching and research. Her first book, “Brahms in the Priesthood of Art,” was published by Oxford University Press in early 2021 with a forthcoming translation in Russian by Academic Studies Press. Her second book, “Trauma, Sound, and Music in the Contemporary Horror Film,” is under contract with Routledge. She has presented at national and international conferences, and has published in Nineteenth-Century Music, the Journal of Music History Pedagogy, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Jazz Perspectives, Studi Musicali and the American Brahms Society Newsletter. Her research has been supported by a fellowship from the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, the Karl Geiringer dissertation award from the American Brahms Society and the Bozarth Award from the American Musicological Society. She is now a member of the American Brahms Society Board of Directors and an editor of the American Brahms Society’s semiannual newsletter.
Educational History:
B.A., College of William and Mary; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fields of Expertise:
Music History
Personal Highlights:
McManus plays both harpsichord and piano; while at UNC-Chapel Hill, she performed regularly with the UNC Baroque Ensemble.