Dr. Vicki Stroeher earned her Ph.D. in musicology with a specialization in music theory from the University of North Texas in 1994. She is a professor of music and serves as the Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Media. She serves as faculty advisor for the Marshall chapter of the Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity. Stroeher has a long and impressive record of community outreach and engagement in her field. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in music history at Marshall. A recipient of the 2018 C.B. Oldman Prize that is awarded by the International Association of Music Libraries and Documentation Centres of the United Kingdom and Ireland, Stroeher also received Marshall’s Distinguished Scholars and Artists Award in 2023. Stroeher’s work on Benjamin Britten illuminates the way in which art music addresses the plight of the individual who is forced to confront war, nationalism, and other perils of modernity. According to Stroeher, Britten imbued remarkable “humanness in his music, expressing with it the very qualities that make us all human, from our innocence to our arrogance to our passion and our coldness.” Stroeher has edited three books about Britten, including Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays in an Inexplicit Art and Benjamin Britten in Context, both along with Justin Vickers (Illinois State University), as well as My Beloved Man: The Letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, with Nicholas Clark and Jude Brimmer (Britten Pears Arts Archive). She has been commissioned by Cambridge University Press to develop The Cambridge History of Opera in Britain and Ireland with co-editors Michael Burden (Oxford University) and Justin Vickers. Her most recent work, which will be published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society in early 2027, explores Britten’s Englishness as an experience of temporality that is inseparable from place and specifically, landscape as expressed in his songs. She will present the results of her fellowship work at the University’s 2026 Drinko Symposium.