Dr. Jennifer Snodgrass is the Director of the School of Music at Middle Tennessee State University. Before relocating to MTSU, Dr. Snodgrass was the Director of the School of Music at Lipscomb University (2022-2025) and the Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of Music Theory at Appalachian State (2005-2022). Snodgrass has received numerous awards and grants in relation to teaching and research including the UNC Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award, Microsoft Teaching with Technology Grant, Plemmons Leadership Medallion, and the College Music Society Innovations in Technology and Teaching Award. She was named a quarter finalist for the GRAMMY Foundation Music Educator Award and was recently presented with the Bledsoe Faculty Excellence Award in Humanities in the Arts.Snodgrass has authored several texts including Fundamentals of Music Theory (Pearson), Contemporary Musicianship: Analysis and the Artist (Oxford University Press) and Teaching Music Theory: New Voices and Approaches (Oxford University Press). Her research has been published in multiple book chapters and she maintains an active presentation schedule at meetings of the Society for Music Theory, College Music Society, and the National Association of Schools of Music. She is also invested in conversations regarding higher education and is a contributor to Inside Higher Ed. Snodgrass currently serves as the Director of the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Center for Music Theory Pedagogy and the executive editor of the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy.

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Strand, K., Snodgrass, J., & Sheppard, A.,. “Reclaiming Musical Identities Confounded by Physical Injury and Damage” in Trauma Resisted and (Re)Engaged: Inquiring into Lost and Found Narratives in Music Education. Part of the Landscapes: The Arts, Aesthetics, and Education (Liora Bresler, series editor). New York: Springer, 2024.

Snodgrass, Jennifer. “Ten Things I’ve Learned as a New Administrator.” Inside Higher Ed. June 27, 2023.

Snodgrass, Jennifer. “Magnify Your Purpose.” Inside Higher Ed. November 10, 2022.

Snodgrass, Jennifer and Pat McMakin. “A=440: Musicianship on Music Row” in the Oxford Handbook of Public Music Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Snodgrass, Jennifer. “Finding Your Purpose Before Succumbing to the Flames” in Professor Burnout: Strategies for Identifying, Addressing, and Destigmatizing Burnout in Higher Education. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 2022.

Snodgrass, Jennifer. “7 Hard Truths and a Few Lies.” Inside Higher Ed. November 18, 2021.

Snodgrass, Jennifer. Contemporary Musicianship: Analysis and the Artist. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 

Snodgrass, Jennifer. “What I Learned from Teaching Music Theory/Aural Skills to Music Industry Majors” in the Routledge Companion to Teaching Music Theory. New York: Routledge Press, 2020.

Snodgrass, Jennifer. Teaching Music Theory: New Voices and Approaches. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020.

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“Reclaiming Musical Identities Confounded by Injury and Damage” Courage to Care Symposium. Online (April 2026)

“Defining Professional Futures-Plenary Career Workshop” The College Music Society National Meeting, Spokane, WA (October 2025)

“Reclaiming Musical Identities Confounded by Physical Injury and Damage” Faculty Research Day. Lipscomb University (September 2024)

“All Music and All Musicians: Theory Pedagogy in "One School of Music” Pedagogy into Practice, Norman, Oklahoma (May 2024).

“Unexpected Pivots: How a Mid-Career Job Change Can Rejuvenate Pedagogical Practice” Pedagogy into Practice, Norman, Oklahoma (May 2024).

“Sitting in on Sitting in Studio Sessions: Backwards Design in Commercial Music Theory” Society for Music Theory/American Musicological Society National Meeting, Denver, CO (November 2023).

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