Stefanie Bilidas

Stefanie Bilidas is a PhD candidate in music theory and assistant instructor at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her master’s in music theory from Michigan State University in 2019. Her primary research focuses on the intersection of timbre and genre in popular music. She also researches rhythm tap dance improvisation, examining how movement informs perspectives of rhythm, meter, and form. She has presented her research on popular music and
dance across the United States and Canada. In her free time, she is a tap dancer, Scottish Highland Dancer and dog mom to two corgis.