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.
[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.
[3] Wlodarski specializes in the relationship between Jewish music and World War II and the Holocaust.
[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.
[3] Outside of academia, Wlodarski also works as Dickinson's choir director, as well as a live event presenter at operas and philharmonics.