Teryl Dobbs

Dr. Teryl Dobbs Professor Teryl L. Dobbs is Professor and Chair of Music Education in the Mead Witter School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds affiliate faculty positions in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (School of Education), Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA), Disabilities Studies Initiative, and the Division of the Arts. Dr. Dobbs teaches undergraduate courses in music learning and teaching for pre-service music educators and in Jewish Studies. Her graduate courses include foundational and topic courses in Music Education, pedagogy for arts performers, and music and genocide. Her scholarly/research interest areas include interrogating the roles of music within genocides, particularly the Shoah; trauma and Music Education; the roles that space and place play in music making, and musical creativity; education policy and theory within Music Education in/equities; human difference and disability studies; and conceptualizing just action and ethics in Music Education.