{"id":1707,"date":"2025-02-27T11:17:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/drinko\/?page_id=1707"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:24:18","slug":"dr-vicki-stroeher-2024-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/drinko\/scholarship-and-creative-production\/dr-vicki-stroeher-2024-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Vicki Stroeher (2024-2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/drinko\/files\/2026\/03\/Vicki_Stroeher-new_headshot-2026-sm-240x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/drinko\/files\/2026\/03\/Vicki_Stroeher-new_headshot-2026-sm-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/drinko\/files\/2026\/03\/Vicki_Stroeher-new_headshot-2026-sm.png 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>Dr. Vicki Stroeher earned her Ph.D. in musicology with a specialization in music theory from the University of North Texas in 1994. <\/strong>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.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">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,\u00a0Stroeher also received Marshall\u2019s Distinguished Scholars and Artists Award in 2023.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Stroeher\u2019s 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 \u201chumanness 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.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Stroeher has edited three books about Britten, including <em>Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays in an Inexplicit Art<\/em> and <em>Benjamin Britten in Context<\/em>, both along with Justin Vickers (Illinois State University), as well as <em>My Beloved Man: The Letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears<\/em>, with Nicholas Clark and Jude Brimmer (Britten Pears Arts Archive).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\"> She has been commissioned by Cambridge University Press to develop <i>The Cambridge History of Opera in Britain and Ireland<\/i>\u00a0with co-editors Michael Burden (Oxford University) and Justin Vickers. Her most recent work, which will be published in the\u00a0<i>Journal of the American Musicological Society<\/i> in early 2027, explores Britten\u2019s Englishness as an experience of temporality that is inseparable from place and specifically, landscape as expressed in his songs.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">She will present the results of her fellowship work at the University\u2019s 2026 Drinko Symposium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/dr-vicki-stroeher-recently-named-marshalls-29th-distinguished-john-deaver-drinko-fellow\/\"><span class=\"EOP SCXW244853738 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">Press Release<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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