Biography
Dr. Jill Rogers is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Florida’s School of Music. Rogers's research centers on how people experience, process, and perform grief and trauma through music and sound, with particular focus on nineteenth through and twenty-first-century classical and popular music cultures in Europe and the United States.
Rogers’s interests in French modernism, affect and psychoanalytic theory, sound studies, trauma studies, and performance studies coalesce in her book Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma Between the Wars, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. This book examines musicians’ personal materials in French and U.S. archives, as well as musical scores, recordings, and philosophical, medical, and military texts in order to offer a new vision of interwar French musical modernism as a set of embodied musical practices that enabled consolation in the wake of World War I’s traumas. Resonant Recoveries is available open access thanks to an IU Presidential Arts & Humanities Production Grant.
Prof. Rogers's work on French musical cultures has appeared in Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Transposition, Revue de musicologie, Music & Letters, Journal of the American Musicological Society, and Music & Politics, as well as in the volumes Music and War in Europe from the French Revolution to WWI (ed., Étienne Jardin, Brepols, 2016) and Music and Death (ed., Wolfgang Marx, Boydell & Brewer, 2023). She is currently the Review Editor for the Journal of the American Musicological Society and a co-editor of a two-volume Oxford Handbook of Music, Sound, and Trauma Studies (under contract).
Rogers is currently working on two book projects that emerge from her work at the intersections of music studies, trauma studies, and gender studies. Radio Women: Music, Politics, Trauma, and Technology in 20th-Century France draws on archival research to explore how French musical women in popular and classical music spheres utilized music, sound, and technology as ways of negotiating loss, exile, and trauma as well as the national, global, and gender politics between 1930 and 1980. In On the Harm in Harmony: Trauma in 20th- and 21st-Century US Musical Institutions (under contract with the University of Michigan Press's Music and Social Justice Series) Rogers turns to surveys, interviews, and archival research to investigate traumatic experiences in popular and classical music institutions in the United States from approximately 1900 to present. Rogers was a recipient of a University of Florida College of the Arts Scholarship Enhancement Grant to support Radio Women, and an AAUW Postdoctoral Leave Fellowship to support On the Harm and Harmony.
Rogers is also a music and sound historian active in digital humanities. While living in Ireland in 2016-19, Rogers founded the Sonic Histories of Cork City Project (SHOCC Project) with Elaine Harrington (University College Cork, special collections librarian) and John Hough (University College Cork, Music Department, senior technical officer). This dynamic public history project, which emerged from an M.A. course in sound studies at UCC, explores relationships between sound, space, and history through historically informed soundscapes created through a by combination of archival research and inventive sound recording and editing. Rogers is also the creator of Sonic Constellations: Circulations of Music, Sound, and Emotion in Interwar France. After receiving an IU Institute of Digital Arts and Humanities, Rogers worked with graduate students to populate two kinds of maps central to this project: 1) ArcGIS-created sound maps that show where and when different sounds and musical performance took place; and 2) social network maps that demonstrate social, emotional, and musical connections between artists, musicians, and writers in interwar France.
Dr. Rogers has a BM in Horn Performance from the University of Denver, an MFA in Musicology from Brandeis University, and a PhD in Musicology from UCLA. Before coming to the University of Florida in 2024, she taught at Indiana University (2019-2024, 2015-16), University College Cork (2016-19), and UCLA (2009-15). She has taught courses and advised projects in French modernism; nineteenth- and twentieth-century music classical music cultures; opera history; instrumental music; music and trauma; music and mourning; music, sound, and violence; disability studies; historical sound studies; writing about music; and U.S. and British popular music. She received a UCC President's Award for Excellence of Teaching in 2017 and an IU Trustee's Teaching Award in 2022.
You can find Dr. Rogers’s full curriculum vitae here.