E. Douglas Bomberger has devoted his career to transatlantic musical relations between the United States and Germany in the late nineteenth century. He earned his Ph.D. in historical musicology at the University of Maryland-College Park. His dissertation research on nineteenth-century American music students in German conservatories was conducted during a year in Germany under the auspices of DAAD. He teaches music history at Elizabethtown College and was previously on the faculty of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.