Amy Lynn Wlodarski

An award-winning scholar and teacher, Amy Lynn Wlodarski is Charles A. Dana Professor of Music at Dickinson College, an undergraduate liberal arts college located in Pennsylvania. Her research explores the complex expressive relationships between Jewish music, trauma, memory, and the tragedies of World War II and the Holocaust. Her scholarship––including Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation (Cambridge, 2015) and George Rochberg, American Composer (University of Rochester, 2019)––has received accolades from the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music. Wlodarski serves the field as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society and regularly presents audience-centered programs for major musical institutions, including the Los Angeles Opera, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. She is currently writing her third book, which explores the concept of “spiritual resistance” through the postwar reception history of Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, a chamber opera written in Ghetto Terezín. She earned her Ph.D. in musicology from the Eastman School of Music and her undergraduate degree from Middlebury College.