Michael Baumgartner

Professor of Musicology

Music & Communication Building, Room 321
216.687.6932
m.baumgartner29@csuohio.edu

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Before coming to CSU in 2011, Michael Baumgartner held the appointment of a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He received his doctoral degree in musicology from the University of Salzburg (Austria), completing a portion of his dissertation work as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. His research interests are music in relation to the other arts (moving images, theater, and contemporary visual arts) and the exploration of the narrative capacity of music.

Baumgartner is the author of the two monographs Metafilm Music in Jean-Luc Godard's Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Exilierte Göttinnen: Frauenstatuen im Bühnenwerk von Kurt Weill, Thea Musgrave und Othmar Schoeck (Georg Olms Verlag, 2012). Together with Ewelina Boczkowska (Youngstown State University), he has edited the two anthologies Music, Collective Memory, Trauma, and Nostalgia in European Cinema after the Second World War and Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980s (both Routledge, 2020 and 2023). Boczkowska and Baumgartner are also the editors for Routledge of the book series Music and Sound on the International Screen, which focuses on publishing anthologies and monographs on music in non-English speaking films and television programs. Baumgartner has also published his scholarship in numerous journals and essay collections, such as the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, Jazz Perspectives, Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, and The Soundtrack. He continues to present his research at numerous conferences throughout North America and Europe, including the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Royal Musical Association, the Society for American Music, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Music and the Moving Image, and other conferences such as the Sixth and Seventh Biennial International: Conference on Music since 1900, the Sixteenth Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music and Feminist Theory and Music.

At CSU, he teaches the one-year music history sequence for music majors (MUS 411/511 and 412/512), the graduate history seminar (MUS 595), the graduate course "Approaches to Music Studies," (MUS 601), "Music and Sound in European Cinema" (MUS/FMA 413/513), and "Practical Approach to Music and Sound in Film and Media Arts" (MUS/FMA 430/530), among other courses. Baumgartner is the advisor for Honors and Scholars students majoring in music and music minors.