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Education

• MA, Brandeis University 

• MM, University of North Texas 

• BA, Lawrence University 

• BM, Lawrence University 

• Vocology Certificate, University of Utah 

Expertise

• Opera Industry 

• Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

• American Popular Music 

• Vocology 

Biography

Anna Valcour (she/her) is a PhD candidate in musicology at Brandeis University, an SVI-trained vocologist, and former opera singer. Previously, she served as an Assistant Professor of Practice at Southern Illinois University (Carbondale). She holds a MA in Music and Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Brandeis University, a MM in Vocal Performance from the University of North Texas, BM in Vocal Performance and BA in History from Lawrence University. Anna鈥檚 research focuses on the intersection of power dynamics and systems of oppression and how they manifest in the voice and singers lived experiences. Her dissertation, "The YAP Trap; or, the Impact of Young Artist Programs on the American Opera Industry," explores how the operatic apprenticeship model has changed through the institutionalization of Young Artist Programs by centering singers' lived experiences. Her other specializations include voice-based analysis of popular music, cultic groups and their relationship to music, Appalachian women鈥檚 coal mining songs, sexual misconduct in the opera industry, and vocology (scientific study of the (re)habilitation of the voice).

Anna has presented her work nationally and internationally at major conferences and invited talks including American Musicological Society, Society for Ethnomusicology 鈥� sponsored by the Section on the Status of Women, International Country Music Conference, Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Conference, Columbia Music Scholarship Conference on Operatic Feminisms, and the University College Dublin International Conference on Music and Pleasure before the Law. Her article, 鈥�鈥� was published with Music & Politics (Spring 2025). Anna was awarded the 2022-2023 AMS New England Chapter Hollace Anne Schafer Memorial Award for this work. Her research has been supported by fellowships and grants including the Sagan Family Grant for Graduate Research, the Fisher American Music Grant, the Connected PhD Grant (supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), and more.