Bio
Dr. Anne E. Hardcastle is Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Spanish at Wake Forest University. In this role she leads Academic Affairs and administrative offices that support university academic operations across the College, graduate, and professional schools.
Anne oversees the management of infrastructure and academic support resources to deliver high-quality degree programs and to ensure the accuracy of institutional records and the fulfillment of reporting and accreditation requirements. A collaborative leader, Anne advances strategic priorities for innovation, policy coherence, and data-informed insights, guiding initiatives for institutional planning and effectiveness to enhance excellence and student support in Wake Forest’s academic programs.
Anne has been a faculty member at Wake Forest since 2002 and has held leadership roles as Associate Dean for Academic Planning in the College, Chair of the Department of Spanish and Italian, Director of the Film Studies interdisciplinary program, and Chair of Chairs. She served on the university’s Covid-19 planning team. More recently, she is part of the leadership team of the University’s 2026 SACSCOC decennial reaffirmation and led the University’s QEP selection process. She currently co-chairs the Workday Executive Committee and the AI Pro Humanitate task force.
Anne earned her undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University and her Master of Arts and Ph.D. degrees in Spanish from the University of Virginia with areas of focus in modern literature and culture from Spain. Her courses introduce students to forms of cultural expression in the Spanish-speaking world, with a focus on Spanish cinema in particular. Her research examines the use of popular fiction and film genres – such as horror, fantasy, and melodrama – to highlight tensions in Spanish political feeling towards the Spanish Civil War, dictatorship, and transition to democracy. Her recent scholarship focuses on the intersection of film melodrama, political affect, and nationalism in contemporary Spain. Her work has been published in edited volumes and in journals such as Letras peninsulares, Hispanófila, and Film Criticism.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Center for Learning, Access, and Student Success (CLASS)
- Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT)
- Office of Institutional Research (IR)
- Office of the University Registrar (OUR)
- Office of Online Education (OOE)
- New Academic Program proposal and Academic Program change or closure process
- Workday Executive Committee
- AI Pro Humanitate Task Force
- ACC Academic Leadership Network, WFU liaison
- New Faculty Orientation
- Provost’s designee: College Committees on Curriculum, Liberal Arts Core Curriculum, and Academic Planning; university Institutional Effectiveness group; SACSCOC compliance committee; Online Education Coordination and Compliance Committee; Enrollment Projection Committee; Faculty Fellows Program