Ilana R. Schroeder received a bachelor’s degree in viola performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, a master’s degree in music history from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and a Ph.D. in historical musicology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a dissertation focusing on Parisian liturgical and paraliturgical music of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

She teaches courses in premodern and premodern-adjacent music and culture which examine not only contemporary topics but also the ways in which those topics still influence and define modern culture and society.

Her current research interests focus on issues of translation/movement of music and bodies in the Middle Ages, as well as the relationship between community, identity, and exclusion.