MICHAEL P. STEINBERG
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Department of History |
Current Status (October 1997)
Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, Field of History, Cornell University
Associate Editor, The Musical Quarterly
Areas of Teaching Interest
Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History, including history of social and cultural theory, literature, and music; German and Austrian Cultural and Intellectual History. Historiography.
Other Affiliations
1996 Class of 1932 Visiting Fellow of the Council on the Humanities, Princeton University.1995 Visiting Associate Professor, Divinity School, University of Chicago
1994 Faculty Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University
1989-93 Assistant Professor of History, Cornell University
1986-89 Assistant Professor of History, Colgate University
1994 Visiting Professor, Institute of Literature, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan.
1991 Professeur associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
1988 (Spring) Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Cornell University
1987 Faculty member, Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria
1985-86 William Rainey Harper Instructor, University of Chicago
1983-85 Lecturer, Social Sciences Collegiate Division and Department of History, University of Chicago.
1982-86 Lecturer, University of Chicago Extension.
1983-85 Director, European Cultural Studies work group, Princeton University.
1981-82 Instructor, Humanities Division, Columbia College, Chicago.
Educational Summary
Ph.D. 1985, University of Chicago, conferred jointly by the Department of History and the Committee on Social Thought.
M.A. University of Chicago, 1981: Department of History.
A.B., magna cum laude, Princeton University, 1978: Department of History, Program in European Cultural Studies, Program in Russian Studies.
Publications
Books
Rethinking German Jewish Modernity (in progress)
Listening to Reason: Music and Subjectivity in the Long Nineteenth Century (forthcoming)
The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival: Austria as Theater and Ideology, 1890-1938. Cornell University Press, 1990.
Editions
Hermann Broch, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and his Time: The European Imagination, 1860-1920, translated, edited, with an introduction, University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Aby Warburg, Images From the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America, translation and edition, with photographs (Cornell University Press, 1995).
Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History. (Cornell University Press, 1996).
History and Theory Beiheft No. 30 (1991): The Presence of the Historian: Essays in Memory of Arnaldo Momigliano. (Edition with introduction) Essays by Karl Christ, Joanna Weinberg, G.W. Bowersock, Carlo Ginzburg, Oswyn Murray.
Articles
"1921: Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem," in Yale Handbook of "German-Jewish Writing", Yale University Press, 1997.
"Das Mendelssohn-Bach Verhältnis als ästhetischer Diskurs der Moderne," in Felix Mendelssohn--Mitwelt und Nachwelt, ed. Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, 1996.
[The Mendelssohn-Bach Relationship as an Aesthetic Discourse of Modernity," in "Mendelssohn--Context andLegacy,ed.Leipzig Gewandhaus.
"Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Musik, Geschichte, Allegorie," in Otto Kolleritsch, ed., Das aufgesprengte Kontinuum: Über die Geschichtsfähigkeit der Musik (Graz, Universal-Edition, 1996)
["Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Music, History, Allegory," in Kolleritsch, "The Broken Continuum: On the Historiographical Capacity of Musik"
"Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Allegorical Reason" and "The Collector as Allegorist: Goods, Gods, and the Objects of History" in Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History, as above.
"Music Drama and the End of History," New German Critique 69 (Fall 1996)
"Cultural History and Cultural Studies," in Cary Nelson and Dilip Gaonkar, eds., Disciplinarity and Dissent in Cultural Studies (Routledge, 1996).
"Schumann's Homelessness," in Schumann and His World, ed. R.L. Todd, Princeton University Press, 1994.
"Don Giovanni Against the Baroque" in On Mozart, ed. J. Morris, Cambridge University Press 1994.
"The Musical Absolute," New German Critique, Special Issue on Theodor Adorno, Summer 1992.
"Richard Strauss and The Question," in Richard Strauss and His World, ed. Bryan Gilliam, Princeton University Press, 1992.
"Broken Vessels: Aestheticism and Modernity in Henry James and Walter Benjamin," in Rediscovering History ed. Michael Roth, Stanford University Press, 1994.
"The Incidental Politics to Mendelssohn's Antigone," in Mendelssohn and His World, ed. R. Larry Todd, Princeton University Press, 1991.
"Why is There No Modernity in Austria?", in Anti-rationalism in German Culture, ed. Hans Schulte.
Dutch translation of above in Nexus No. 3 (Summer 1992).
"Fin-de-siècle Vienna Ten Years Later," Austrian History Yearbook, 1991.
"Reading Vienna," in The Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1990.
"Jewish Identity and Intellectuality in "Fin-de-siècle Austria: Suggestions for a Historical Discourse," New German Critique No. 43 (Spring 1988).
"Broch's Cognitive Style," in Hermann Broch-Language, Philosophy, Politics, ed. Stephan Dowden, Camden House, 1988.
Preface to Ernestine Schlant, Hermann Broch, University of Chicago Press, 1986.
"Totalität und Rationalität" in Brochs Theoretisches Werk, ed. P.M. Lützeler and Michael Kessler, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1988.
"Politics and Psychology in Stefan Zweig's Schweigsame Frau," in Stefan Zweig: The World of Yesterday's Humanist Today: Proceedings of the Zweig Symposium, Marion Sonnenfeld, ed., Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983.
"Portrait of the Artist: Aestheticism in Wagner's Parsifal" Opera News, April 1983.
"Metaphor of the Dance: The Meaning of the Waltzes in Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier," Opera News, January 1980.
"Death or Transfiguration: The Heroines of Elektra and Ariadne auf Naxos," Opera News, March 1979.
"Elective Affinities: The Four Creators of Werther and Eugene Onegin," The World of Opera, Vol. I, No. 5, 1979.
Reviews:
Review of Denis Goeldel, Moeller van den Bruck, un nationaliste contre la révolution (Bern, 1984), Journal of Modern History, 58:4.
Review of Ernst Hanisch, Nationalsozialistische Herrschaft in der Provinz Salzburg im Dritten Reich (Salzburg, 1983), Journal of Modern History, 59:2.
Review of Joseph Kerman, Contemplating Music (Cambridge, Mass., 1985), Musical America, November 1985.
Review of Russell Berman, The Rise of the Modern German Novel: Crisis and Charisma (Cambridge, Mass., 1986)
Journal of Modern History, 61:1.
Review article: Marvin Carlson, Places of Performance: The Semiotics of Theater Architecture, Cambridge Journal of Opera, vol. 2, no. 3, Nov. 1990.
Review: Lee Congdon, Exile and Social Thought, Journal of Modern History (forthcoming).
Review: Gerald Stourzh, Vom Reich zur Republik , in Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol 2.
Review: Russell Berman, Cultural Studies of Modern Germany in Central European History, Central European History, 1995.
Review of Eric Santner, My Own Private Germany (Princeton, 1996), in American Journal of Sociology, forthcoming.
Review of Peter Loewenberg, Reality and Fantasy in History (Harvard, 1995) Journal of Modern History, forthcoming.
Conferences and Lectures
Stefan Zweig Centennial Conference, State University of New York at Fredonia, March 1981: published, see above.
International conference, University of London, on the Habsburg Monarchy, September 1985: "The Catholic Culture of the Austrian Jews."
Leo Baeck Institute, New York: Lecture Series on the Fortieth Anniversary of the Death of Richard Beer-Hofmann, February 1986: "Richard Beer-Hofmann's Vienna."
University of Minnesota, Ninth Annual Conference of the Center for Austrian Studies, May 1986: "Austrian Jewish Intellectuals: Problems of Approach"
International conference, Akademie der Diozoese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Stuttgart, October 1986: "Rationalitaet and Totalitaet in Brochs Gesellschaftsbild."
Centenary Conference, Yale University, November 1986: "Literature, Philosophy, Politics, and the Mind of Hermann Broch."
Respondent to Richard Brinkmann, "Zum Brochs Symbolbegriff."
Paper: "The Ideology of the Austrian Baroque, 1867-1938," McMaster University Conference on German Studies, October 1987.
Lecture: "Jewishness and Intellectuality in Austria, 1890-1938," Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, November 1987.
Lecture: "The Expressionist Moment in the Austrian Fin-de-siècle," Bard College, May 1988.
Lecture: "Walter Benjamin and the History of Negative Aesthetics, "California State University, Los Angeles, December 1988.
Paper: "The Ideology of the Baroque," Conference on Central Europe, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 1989.
Lecture: "Intellectual History and Musical Form," Cornell Music Department Colloquium, November 1989.
Lecture: "Brahms, Modernism, and Vienna" Bard Music Festival, August 1990.
Lecture: "Walter Benjamin and the Possibility of a European Cultural Identity," University of Virginia, Charlottesville, November 1990.
Lecture: "Dialectical Identities," A.H.A Session on Walter Benjamin, December 1990.
Lecture on Walter Benjamin, New York University Committee on Theory and culture, December 1990.
Lecture: "The Possession of Modern Life," Symposium on Art Nouveau and Art Deco, Gardner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, February 1991.
Lecture: "Walter Benjamin et la traduction de la modernité," Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, May 1991.
Lecture: La fiction aesthétique: le néo-baroque et la modernité," Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May 1991.
Lecture: "German Scholarship and the American Southwest: The Case of Aby Warburg," Center for the Humanities, Stanford University, June 1991.
Participant, SSRC Workshop on "Culture and Politics in Japan's Interwar Discourses," University of Chicago, June 1991.
Lecture: "The Traditions of Myth and Tragedy in Nineteenth-Century German Culture," Bard Music Festival, August 1991.
Paper: "History and Negative Aesthetics in Adorno and Benjamin, or 'The Third Man,'" Conference on "Theodor Adorno: The Institution and the Intellectual," Cornell University, September 1991.
Lecture: "The Benjaminian Moment: Forms of Modernity in Mendelssohn, Warburg, and Benjamin," Brown University, September 1991.
Participant, Conference on Arnold Schönberg, Schönberg Institute, University of Southern California, November 1991.
Paper: "Mozart's Don Giovanni Against the Baroque, or, The Culture Punished," Wilson Center Conference on the Bicentennial of Mozart's Death, December 1991.
Paper: "Carlo Michelstaedter and the Frontiers of Identity," University of Southern California, Conference on Trieste: City of Cultural Crossroads, February 1992.
Lecture: Dialogues of Modernity: Mendelssohn, Warburg, and Benjamin: Indiana University, Department of Germanic Studies, April 1992.
Response to David Tracy, "Critical Social Theory and the Interpretation of Religions," Colgate University Humanities Colloquium, April 1992.
"The Benjaminian Moment," Christian Gauss Colloquium on Modernism, Princeton University, April 1992.
Panelist and Commentator, German Studies Association, October 1992.
Panelist, Conference on Translation as Cultural Transmission, Bard College, October 1992.
Convener, Conference on "Music, Gender, and Culture: The Mendelssohn Family," Cornell University, February 1993.
Participant, Conference on Memory Theory and Jewish Tradition, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, Germany, February 1993.
Paper: "Das Bach-Mendelssohn Verhaltnis als asthetischer Diskurs der Moderne," Symposium on Felix Mendelssohn, Gewandhaus, Leipzig, Germany, June 1993.
Lecture: "Mozart, Brahms, and Modernism," Mostly Mozart Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, July 1993.
Lecture: "Requiems and Memory in the 19th Century," Bard Music Festival, 1993.
Lecture: "Musical Intimacy in the 19th Century," Columbia University, October 1993.
Lecture: "The North German Tradition of Music and Aesthetics," Avery Fisher Hall, New York, October 1993.
Paper: "Imagined Restorations: Leo Strauss, Ernest Kantorowicz, and Weimar Identity Politics," A.H.A. meetings, January 1994.
Lectures: The first annual Bruman Lectures in German History, UCLA, May 1994.
Paper: "Messianic Silence in Schoenberg and Scholem," Harvard University, Symposium on Music and Emmigration, May 1994.
Four lectures on Modernity, Postmodernity, and Jewish History, National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan, May 1994.
Co-Sponsor and Participant, Conference on Cultural Studies and Cultural Identity in the New Europe, Center for Transcultural Studies, Chicago, July 1994.
Lecture: Schumann and Romanticism, Bard Music Festival, August 1994.
Panel: Paris in the 1860's, American Symphony Orchestra, New York, September 1994.
Paper: "Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Musik, Geschichte, Allegorie," Symposium "Uber die Geschichts- fähigkeit der Musik," Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst," Graz, October 1994.
Chair: Session on "Political Appropriations," American Musicological Association, Minneapolis, October 1994.
Lecture: Modernity and the Faust Myth, Bard Music Festival at Lincoln Center, New York, November 1994.
Convener, Symposium on Aby Warburg, Cornell Society for the Humanities, April 1995. Speakers: Michael Ann Holly (Rochester), Keith Moxey (Columbia), Susan Buck-Morss, Hal Foster, Peter Hohendahl (Cornell).
Convener, Symposium on "Identity: Who Needs It?" at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna, May 1995. Speakers: Charles Taylor, Stephen Toulmin, David Sabean, Ping-hui Liao, Nilufer Gole, Linda Alcoff, Daniel Herwitz, Dilip Gaonkar, Benjamin Lee.
Lecture: "Richard Strauss: Modernism and Kitsch," Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, N.Y. July 1995.
Lecture on Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, Bard Music Festival, August 1995.
Conference paper: "Music Drama and the End of History," at conference "Wagner and the Consequences," Columbia University, October 1995
Paper, "Siegmund's Death and the End of the Nineteenth Century," Symposium "Why Wagner?" University of Chicago, March 1996
Paper: "Music and Subjectivity," Graduate Students' Theory Group, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, April 1996
Paper, "Richard Wagner: Symptomaticity and Ambivalence," in Symposium "German Intellectuals Between
Bildung and Breakdown," Princeton University, April 1996
Lecture: "Beethoven and Protestant Culture," Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, June 1996.
Paper, "Beethoven and Baroque Displacement," Conference: "Baroque ReVisions," Internationles Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna and Melk, Austria, October 1996.
Paper, "Freud and the Survival of Subjectivity," Conference: "Metropolis Vienna, Textures of the Modern," Vienna, November 1996.
Co-organizer, with Micke Bal, of Conference, "Recycling Culture," Cornell University, April 1997.
Organizer of Conference, "New Directions in German Jewish Cultural Studies," Cornell University, April 1997.
Paper, "The Materiality of the Baroque," Walter Benjamin Congress, Amsterdam, July 1997.
Paper, "Nationalism and Gender in Post-Wagnerian Opera," University of Minnesota, October 1997 and AHA Meetings, January 1998.
Paper, "Cultural History Tomorrow," conference "The Contemporary Study of Culture," IFK, Vienna, December 1997.
Grants and Awards
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1987.
Picker Foundation Fellowship, 1989.
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1989.
New York State Council on the Humanities Mini-grant, 1993.
Other
Workshop Organizer, "Walter Benjamin and the Question of Modernity," Society for the Humanities, Cornell, October 1990.
Conference organizer, "The Mendelssohn Family: Music, Gender and Culture in Early 19th-century Germany," Cornell University, February 1993.
Member, Advisory Board; Executive Committee; Directorship Search Committee; Richard and Marieluise Center for Curatorial Studies and Twentieth Century Art and Culture, Bard College.
Member, Planning Committee, Symposium on the Bicentennial of Mozart's Death, December 1991, Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.
Manuscript referee, University of Chicago Press, University of California Press, Cornell University Press, Northwestern University Press, Columbia University Press, Yale University Press, Duke University Press, Stanford University Press, Wayne State University Press, University of Massachusetts Press.
Mentor, Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program, Cornell, 1989-90, 1990-91.
Member, Executive Committee, Luigi Einandi Fellowship Executive and Nominating Committees, Western Societies Program, Cornell University.
Member, Program Committee, Bard Music Festival 1992.
Chair and Member, Committee on Academic Programs and Policies, Cornell University, 1991-94.
Member, Departmental Search Committee, Cornell University, 1991-92.
Member, Admissions Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, 1991-92.
Referee, Fellowship Program, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.
Member, University Lectures Committee, Cornell University, 1993-94.
Member, Independent Majors Board, Cornell University, 1992-.
Workshop organizer: "German Jewish History and the History of Identity," Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell, December 1994.
Member, Faculty Board, Cornell University Press, 1993-97.
Associate Editor, The Musical Quarterly, published by Oxford University Press.
Member, Departmental Search Committee (position in Modern Jewish History), Cornell.
Co-chair and Member, Humanities Council, Cornell University, 1995-98.
Member, Dean's Avisory Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell, 1995-98.
Member, Olin Library Users' Committee, Cornell.
Member, Steering Committee, Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell.