Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, Ph.D.
she, her, hersSHARON.WELTMAN@tcu.eduReed 314A (map link)
Program Affiliations
Education
PhD, English, Rutgers University (1992)
MPhil, English, Rutgers University (1989)
MA, English, Rutgers University (1989)
MAT, Humanities, The University of Texas at Dallas (1984)
BA, English and Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin (1979)
Areas of Focus
Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Theatre, and Visual Culture
Musical Theater
Global Adaptation, Transmediation, and Appropriation of Victorian Literature
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Race and Ethnic Studies
Adaptation Theory
Classes Taught
Undergraduate
Introduction to Drama
British Literature since 1800
Introduction to Literary Theory
19th Century British Literature
Victorian Women Writers
The Wilde Years
Melodrama
Graduate:
Global Dickens: Adaptation, Appropriation, Performance
Seminar in British Literature of the Victorian Period
Victorian Poetry and Prose
American Stagings: Culture, Theatre, Performance
- Books
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Victorians on Broadway: Literature, Adaptation, and the Modern American Musical. University of Virginia Press, 2020 (SCMLA Book Award, 2021; a Top 40 Academic Best Seller in music and art by Library Journal in March 2021; named a “Must Read” summer theater book by Playbill in July 2020) -
Performing the Victorian: John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education. Ohio State University Press, 2007 -
Ruskin’s Mythic Queen: Gender Subversion in Victorian Culture, Ohio University Press. 1999 (Outstanding Academic Book, Choice magazine, 1999)
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- Articles & Essays
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“Melodrama, Purimspiel, and Jewish Emancipation.” Victorian Literature and Culture 47.2 (2019): 1-41. 2020 Nineteenth Century Studies Association Best Article Prize
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“Victorian London’s Black Playwrights.” Nineteenth Century Contexts (2024): 89-97 -
“The Littleness of Little Dorrit.” Review of English Studies (RES) 74.316 (October 2023), 697–713. Winner of the 2024 David Paroissien Prize for the best article on Charles Dickens published in 2023
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- “Thinking Ecologically with Ruskin; or, How Women Will Save the World.” Plenary. Ruskin in America. USC, Los Angeles, CA. October 5-6, 2024
- “The Toy Theatre: Transgression and Transmediation in the Victorian Home.” Plenary Panel on Transmedia. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS). Cincinnati, OH. March 20, 2024.
- “Jekyll and Hyde: Fiction, Film, and Broadway Musical.” The annual Gilbert Lecture at SMU. November 3, 2022.
- “Victorians beyond Broadway: Global Adaptation Remakes ‘Victorian’ Studies.” Plenary Roundtable. Dickens Universe. University of California-Santa Cruz. Zoom. July 26, 2022.
- “Elizabeth Polack, Jewish Emancipation, and the Archive of Nineteenth-Century Melodrama.” Fordham University. February 2, 2022. International Webinar Series.
- “A Christmas Carol on Broadway.” Plenary. Dickens Universe. University of California-Santa Cruz. Zoom. July 26, 2021.
- “Victorians on Broadway: How the Modern Meets the Middlebrow; or, Adapting The Tinted Venus (1885) to the American Musical Stage” Joint meeting of the Cambridge American Literature Seminar and the Cambridge 19th Century Seminar. Cambridge University. Zoom. June 3, 2021.
- “Victorians Performed: Teaching through Adaptation to Stage, Screen, and New Media.” Interpreting English Literature Now. International Webinar Series. Diponegoro Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. September 25, 2020.
- “Victorians on Broadway: Melodrama and Gender Performance in Jekyll and Hyde.” The annual Ballew Lecture. University of Georgia. February 25, 2020.
- “Ethics of the Golden Dustman: Ruskin, ‘Crystal Life,’ and Our Mutual Friend.” John Ruskin: Prophet of the Anthropocene. John J. Reilly Center. University of Notre Dame. South Bend, IN. February 7-8, 2020.
- “‘Why These Victorian Views?’: How the Modern Meets the Middlebrow in Sculpture, Fiction, and Musical Theater.” The Victorians Institute conference. Keynote. Asheville, NC, November 9-10, 2018.
Last Updated: November 19, 2024