Faculty

Kevin Dugat is the Visiting Lecturer of Low Brass at UNC Charlotte. Throughout his career, Dugat has cultivated a broad range of experiences as a performer, educator, and academic. Between 2021 and 2025, Dugat resided in Boston, Massachusetts, where he became deeply involved in the New England music scene. He performed regularly with ensembles such […]

A conductor, tenor, and music educator, Dr. Dungee holds degrees from the University of Arizona, Westminster Choir College, and Hampton University (Virginia). Prior to appointments as Director of Choral Studies in South Carolina and Florida, he enjoyed eight years as a successful high school choral music teacher in Newport News and Williamsburg, Virginia. He was a Conductor Fellow in the […]

Nathaniel Elberfeld is a designer and co-founder of Teltta, a research and computational design collective that engages systems of production, material knowledge, and labor forces in architecture and design. Teltta’s creative work has been exhibited publicly in galleries and museums including the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and at Design Seaport in Boston, Massachusetts, and […]

Jefferson Ellinger is an Architect and Professor at UNC Charlotte in the School of Architecture and Director of the Design Computation Program. He is also an affiliate faculty member in the School of Data Science at UNC Charlotte. Practicing as an architect he has built several projects throughout North America and won several international competitions, including […]

Jae Emerling is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History in the Department of Art & Art History at UNC Charlotte and the Associate Dean for Research for the College of Arts + Architecture. After attending Wesleyan University, he received his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California, Los Angeles.  He is the […]

Rachel Engstrom is the Costume Lab Supervisor and a lecturer at UNC Charlotte, where she has designed the recent fall and spring dance concerts. She is also a freelance costume designer with local credits including The Producers, Spring Awakening, and Memphis at Theatre Charlotte, The Mousetrap, The Bridges of Madison County, James and the Giant […]

David Fillmore is Professor of Lighting Design for the College of Arts + Architecture at UNC Charlotte and the Associate Chair of the Department of Theatre. He has been working as a professional designer both nationally and internationally for over two decades, realizing more than 200 designs in all forms of dance and theatre.  Career […]

My creative practice (Ciotat Studio) is based in New York City and consists primarily of architectural design and media production: single-family houses that include quasi-public event spaces; videos that analyze the city through experimental methods of abstraction; media installations embedded into urban spaces; and critical essays on the built environment in multimedia and written formats. […]

Matthew Fraiser is proud to have received his MFA in Technical Production from Florida State University (FSU). During his time at FSU, he worked as Technical Director for The Love of the Nightingale and Romeo and Juliet. In the summers of 2013 and 2014, Matthew worked at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, serving as an Assistant Technical Director in the Adams Memorial […]

James F. D. Frakes is Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.  His book, Framing Public Life: the Portico in Roman Gaul (2009) looks at the installation of a common Mediterranean architectural form in the Gallic provinces, and analyzes how the colonnaded walkway both promoted and sustained new forms of social identity. He has […]