Amy Lynn Wlodarski

Amy Lynn Wlodarski
OccupationHistorian
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2024)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Sounds of Memory: German Musical Representations of the Holocaust, 1945–1965 (2006)
Doctoral advisorKim H. Kowalke
Academic work
DisciplineMusic history
Sub-disciplineJewish music
InstitutionsDickinson College

Amy Lynn Wlodarski is an American music historian. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation (2015) and George Rochberg, American Composer (2019) and is a professor at Dickinson College.

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]

Bibliography

  • (ed. with Elaine Kelly) Art Outside the Lines (2011)[13]
  • Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation (2015)[14][15]
  • George Rochberg, American Composer (2019)[16][17]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Fulbright grant". The Weekly. August 7, 2003. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b c d Bitts-Jackson, MaryAlice (April 26, 2024). "Dickinson Professor Earns Coveted Guggenheim Fellowship". Dickinson College. Archived from the original on January 25, 2025. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Amy Wlodarski". Dickinson College. Archived from the original on December 3, 2024. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
  4. ^ The Sounds of Memory: German Musical Representations of the Holocaust, 1945–1965 (PhD thesis). Eastman School of Music. 2005. OCLC 82219124. ProQuest 304916988.
  5. ^ "Previous Awards". Oral History Association. September 19, 2008. Archived from the original on January 14, 2025. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
  6. ^ Kelly, Elaine; Wlodarski, Amy (2011). Art Outside the Lines: New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture. University of Edinburgh. doi:10.1163/9789401200400. ISBN 978-94-012-0040-0. Archived from the original on January 15, 2025. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
  7. ^ "Lewis Lockwood Award Winners". American Musicological Society. Archived from the original on September 26, 2024. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
  8. ^ Wlodarski, Amy Lynn (2015). Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781316337400. ISBN 978-1-316-33740-0. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
  9. ^ "Awards". American Musicological Society Jewish Studies and Music Group. Archived from the original on January 15, 2025. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
  10. ^ "George Rochberg, American Composer". Boydell and Brewer. Archived from the original on August 9, 2024. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
  11. ^ "Amy Lynn Wlodarski". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on January 19, 2025. Retrieved January 15, 2025.
  12. ^ "Weddings". The Bangor Daily News. August 30, 2008. p. C12. Archived from the original on January 19, 2025. Retrieved January 15, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ Hodgin, Nick (2012). "Art Outside the Lines: New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture". German Studies Review. 35 (2): 449–451. ISSN 0149-7952. JSTOR 23269704.
  14. ^ Greer, Catherine (2020). "Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation by Amy Lynn Wlodarski". Journal of Jewish Identities. 13 (1): 144–147. doi:10.1353/jji.2020.0005. ISSN 1946-2522. Archived from the original on January 19, 2025. Retrieved January 16, 2025 – via Project Muse.
  15. ^ Strimple, Nick (2016). "Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation. Music since 1900". Music & Letters. 97 (2): 362–364. doi:10.1093/ml/gcw032. ISSN 0027-4224. JSTOR 44163519.
  16. ^ Blumhofer, Jonathan (2021). "George Rochberg, American Composer: Personal Trauma and Artistic Creativity". Notes. 78 (1): 69–72. doi:10.1353/not.2021.0064. ISSN 0027-4380. JSTOR 27079863.
  17. ^ Whittall, Arnold (2020). "American convictions". The Musical Times. 161 (1950): 113–116. ISSN 0027-4666. JSTOR 26905032.
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