Michael Baumgartner
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 Title: Professor
 Dept: Music
 Office: MU 321
 Phone: 216-687-6932
 Fax: 216-687-9279
 Email: M.BAUMGARTNER29@csuohio.edu
 Address: 2121 Euclid Ave. MU 321, Cleveland, OH 44115

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Research Keywords:
Twentieth-century music, twenty-first-century music, 20th-century music, 21st-century music, film music, music in the media, television music, opera, musical, musicology, jazz, popular music, Jean-Luc Godard, Duke Ellington, Alfred Schnittke, Kurt Weill.
 
Education:
Ph.D., Musicology, University of Salzburg, 2005
M.A., Musicology and Film Studies, University of Zurich, 1999
 
Brief Bio:
Michael Baumgartner's 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.
 
Honors and Awards:
2023: Graduate Faculty Research Support Program, Cleveland State University.
2023: AAUP Article 26 Travel Funding Support, Cleveland State University.
2022-23: Merit Recognition Award, Cleveland State University.
2019-20: Merit Recognition Award, Cleveland State University.
2019: AAUP Article 26 Travel Funding Support, Cleveland State University.
2018: Golden Apple Award Honoree, initiative sponsored by the Cleveland State University Young Alumni Council to recognize the outstanding contributions of dedicated faculty and staff.
2017-18: Merit Recognition Award, Cleveland State University.
2017: Faculty Scholarship Initiative Award (FSI), Cleveland State University.
2017: Graduate Faculty Research Support Program, Cleveland State University.
2017: AAUP Article 26 Travel Funding Support, Cleveland State University.
2016: AAUP Article 26 Travel Funding Support, Cleveland State University.
2016: Golden Apple Award Honoree, initiative sponsored by the Cleveland State University Young Alumni Council to recognize the outstanding contributions of dedicated faculty and staff.
2016-17: Faculty Scholarship Initiative Award (FSI), Cleveland State University.
2016-17: Merit Recognition Award, Cleveland State University.
2012: Publication Grant from the Othmar Schoeck Society, Zurich.
2008: American Musicology Society Travel Grant.
2006: Killam Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.
2006: Publication grant from the Kurt Weill Foundation, New York.
 
Research Interests:
Music in the media, opera and music theater of the twentieth and twenty-first century, jazz and popular music.
 
Teaching Areas:
Music history, film music, television music, music in the media, film and television sound, opera of the twentieth and twenty-first century, musical, film musical, sound studies.
 
Professional Affiliations:
American Musicological Society; International Musicology Society.
 
University Service:
University
2023-present: Senator
2021-present: University Faculty Affairs Committee (member).
2021-22: Faculty Representative to the SGA (Student Government Association).
2020-23: University Diversity and Inclusion Committee (member).
2019-20: University Diversity and Inclusion Committee (chair).
2014-16: University Admissions and Standards Committee (member).

President's Office
2021-23: President's Diversity Council (member, plus member of two subcommittees).
2020: President's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force 2.0 (member).

College of Arts and Sciences
2023-present: Peer Review Committee (member).

College of Liberal Arts and Social Science
2021-22: Voting and Elections Working Group, CSU 2.0 (member).
2022: Program review of the School of Film and Media Arts (internal reviewer).
2020-22: Academic Standard Committee (member).
2016-18: Curriculum committee (member).
2016: Search committee for a director of the School of Film and Media Arts (member).
2014-16: Ad-hoc committee for the revision of the BA program in women's and gender studies (member).

College of Graduate School
2019-21: Grade Dispute Committee (member).

Office of Research
2016-19: University Research Council (member).
2015-18: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Scholarship Advisory Board (member).

School of Music (former Department of Music)
2021: Search committee for the position of a lecturer of music theory (member).
2020-22: Curriculum committee (member).
2020: Search committee for the position of an assistant professor of practice in music therapy (member).
2017-18: Peer review committee (member).
2015-18: Curriculum committee (chair).
2015-16: Search committee for an assistant professor of music therapy and an assistant professor of practice in music therapy (member).

School of Film and Media Arts
2021: Search committee for the position of a tenure-track assistant professor of film (member).
2020-21: Peer review committee (member)
 
Professional Service:
Conference Organizer
2021: International Musicological Society Study Group: Music and Media XII at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, and Cleveland State University, virtual conference.
2017 and 2014: American Musicological Society: Annual meeting of the Allegheny Chapter, Cleveland State University.
2008: American Musicological Society: Annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Chapter, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
2001: Othmar Schoeck Society, Zürich: "Das Streichquartett in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts," Symposium, Musikhochschule Zürich.
1999: Lucerne Festival: "Die Worte vergrössern: Schoecks Opern im Spiegel der Kulturwissenschaften," Symposium, Musikhochschule Lucerne.

Session Chair (invited)
2021: Panel "(In)Audibility in Film." Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Chicago (online), November 10-13 and 20-21.
2019: Panel "Communist and Post-Communist Spectacles." Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Boston, October 30-November 3.
2017: Panel at "Popular Song in Film. Thirty Years of Claudia Gorbman's Unheard Melodies," Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, October 6-7.
2016: Panel "Theatricalities." Midwest Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, April 30.
2013: Roundtable "Ecomusicology Listening Room: Ecocriticism, Popular Music, and the Audio-Visual." Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Indianapolis, November 14-17.
2013: Panel "Ecomusicology Listening Room 2013." Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Pittsburgh, November 7-10.
2010: Panel "Making Musical Communities." Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Indianapolis, November 4-7.

Services to Publishers
2016-present: Series editor (together with Ewelina Boczkowska, Youngstown State University) of Music and Sound on the International Screen for Routledge, New York, and London.
2007-present: Manuscript reviewer for Oxford University Press, Routledge, University of Rochester Press, Journal of Film Music, Echo: A Music-Centered Journal, BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, and Music and the Moving Images.

Services to the American Musicological Society
2023: Proposal reviewer for the annual meeting of the AMS
2022: Proposal reviewer for the annual meeting of the AMS
2015-17: Member of the Committee on the History of the Society.
2017-19: President of the AMS Allegheny Chapter.
2015-17: Chair of the Program Committee of the AMS Allegheny Chapter.
2014-15: Member of the Program Committee of the AMS Allegheny Chapter.
2012-14: AMS Council Representative of the New England Chapter.
2010-14: Ecocriticism Study Group: Secretary-Treasurer.
2008-10: Ecocriticism Study Group: Chair of the Program Committee.