Biography
Amy Wlodarski was born to Terri and Fred Wlodarski, [1] and her maternal grandmother was among millions subject to forced labour under German rule during World War II. [2] She attended Orono High School in Orono,Maine, [1] and she obtained her BA (1997) at Middlebury College and MA (2001) and PhD (2006) at Eastman School of Music; [3] her doctoral dissertation The Sounds of Memory:German Musical Representations of the Holocaust,1945-1965 was supervised by Kim H. Kowalke. [4] During her postgraduate studies,she was given a German-American Fulbright Program scholarship to study at Free University of Berlin and spent some time living in the Greater Boston area for her doctorate. [1]
Wlodarski moved to Dickinson College in 2005,and she began working as a professor there. [2] She won the Oral History Association Postsecondary Teaching Award in 2010. [5] She became the Charles A. Dana Endowed Chair in 2021. [2] She was a resident director for Dickinson's abroad study program in Italy from 2022 until 2024. [3]
Wlodarski specializes in the relationship between Jewish music and World War II and the Holocaust. [3] In 2011,she and Elaine Kelly were co-editors of Art Outside the Lines,an essay volume on the East German arts. [6] She won the 2016 Lewis Lockwood Award for her book Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation , [7] which its publisher Cambridge University Press called the "first musicological study entirely devoted to a comprehensive analysis of musical Holocaust representations in the Western art music tradition". [8] She won the 2020 Book Prize of the American Musicological Society Jewish Studies and Music Group for her next book George Rochberg,American Composer (2020), [9] which explores how George Rochberg's personal trauma influenced his work. [10]
In 2022,Wlodarski became editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society . [2] In 2024,she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Research; [11] as part of the fellowship,her next historical project is on the international reception of the Viktor Ullmann opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis . [3]
Outside of academia,Wlodarski also works as Dickinson's choir director,as well as a live event presenter at operas and philharmonics. [3]
On July 12,2008,she married Jeremy Ball,a history professor at Dickinson. [12]
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