Faculty Profile
Amy Wlodarski
(she/her/hers)Professor of Music; Charles A. Dana Chair (2005)
Contact Information
on sabbatical 2024-25
Weiss Center for the Arts Room 215
717-245-1333
Bio
An award-winning scholar and teacher, Prof. Wlodarski's research explores the complex expressive relationships between Jewish music, trauma, memory, and the tragedies of World War II and the Holocaust. Her two monographs--Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation (2015) and George Rochberg, American Composer (2019)--have both received accolades from leading musicological societies. In addition to written scholarship, Prof. Wlodarski regularly presents programs for major musical institutions, including the Los Angeles Opera, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Violins of Hope Exhibition, and her work has been supported by the Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Harvard University. As an educator, she specializes in courses that explore the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of creative practices in music ranging from 1750 to the present and conducts the Dickinson College Choir. Prof. Wlodarski was selected as 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. During her fellowship year, she is writing a history of the international reception of Viktor Ullmann's "Der Kaiser von Atlantis," a chamber opera written in Ghetto Terezín in 1944.
Education
- B.A., Middlebury College, 1997
- M.A., Eastman School of Music, 2001
- Ph.D., 2006
- Faculty Resident Director, Dickinson in Italy, 2022-2024
Awards
- Dickinson Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2010-11
- Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching, 2014-15