Three Women Join the Faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts

The University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem has welcomed four new full-time faculty members for the 2020-21 academic year. Three of the new faculty members are women.

Kara Anderson joined the cinema studies faculty in the School of Filmmaking. She has expertise in the areas of animation history and theory, video game studies, and American film. Most recently she served as and assistant professor and screen studies coordinator at Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

Dr. Anderson is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she majored in modern literature. She holds a master’s degree in English from Northeastern University in Boston and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pittsburgh.

Carrie Hart has joined the English department faculty. She taught gender, women’s, and sexuality studies at Appalachian State University for two years and at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Dr. Hart is a graduate of Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, where she majored in English and gender and women’s studies. She holds a master’s degree in women’s and gender studies and a Ph.D. in educational and cultural studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Award-winning mezzo-soprano Phyllis Pancella will teach voice at the university. She has performed for major opera companies throughout the United States and in Canada, Mexico, Israel, Italy, France and Belgium. Pancella has been a visiting professor of voice and artist-in-residence at Florida State University.

A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Kanas, where she majored in philosophy, Pancella is studying for a master’s degree in educational psychology from Florida State University.

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