Dr Teryl Dobbs

Teryl Dobbs, Associate Professor and Chair, Music Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a co-investigator for ‘Performing the Jewish Archive’ with appointments in both the School of Music and Department on Curriculum and Instruction. Dr Dobbs’ research addresses the intersection of music education/pedagogy and the musical experience during the Shoah.

Her research agenda includes theoretical and philosophical conceptualisations of multiple forms of the experience, critical discourse and social semiotic analyses of texts, e.g. testimonies, musical scores and performances. Additionally her research includes phenomenological investigations of survivors’ musical experiences and conceptualising a critical music pedagogy of remembrance.

(Teryl will be conducting her research with the partners of Mosse-Weinstein Centre for Jewish Studies, Arts Institue and Disability Studies Initiative.)

Dr Dobbs holds both the Ph.D. and Master’s degree from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.