Colored photo of a woman smiling
Sharon  Aronofsky  Weltman 
Professor
Bachelor's Degree(s): BA, English & Anthropology, University of Texas (Austin), 1979
Master's Degree: MA & MPhil, English, Rutgers, 1989; MAT, Humanities, University of Texas-Dallas, 1984;
PhD: PhD, English, Rutgers, 1992
Phone: (225) 578-2857
Fax: (225) 578-4129
Office: Allen 210-D

Area of Interest

Victorian literature, Romantic literature, adaptations of Victorian materials, literary theory, feminist theory, gender studies, myth, 19th- century theater, Broadway musicals. 

Awards & Honors

LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award, 2006

Outstanding Academic Book, Choice magazine, 1999

 Kurt Weill Foundation Award Finalist for Best Essay on Musical Theater, 1999

 Most Accommodating Faculty Award, Students with Disability Services, LSU, 1999

 Woodrow Wilson National Teacher Fellowship, 1981-1983


Selected Publications

Books

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). 

 

Editions

Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls, Or The Fiend of Fleet Street, by George Dibdin Pitt.  Editor and Introduction, plus notes. Special Issue of Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film Manchester University Press (forthcoming 2012)

 

Guest-Editor of Nineteenth-Century Prose 35.1 (Spring 2008) special issue on John Ruskin


Essays

"Theater, Exhibition, and Spectacle in the Nineteenth Century,"  Companion to British Literature, edited by Robert DeMaria Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher (Blackwell, forthcoming 2013)

"Can a Fellow Be a Villain All His Life?":  Oliver!, Fagin, and Performing Jewishness,"  Nineteenth-Century Contexts 33.4 (September 2011):  371-388.  Selected for republication in volume of Best Essays on Dickens Adaptations, edited by John Glavin.  

Bos/z in Sweeney Todd:  Dickens, Sondheim, and Victorianness," Dickens Studies Annual 42 (2011): 55-76

“'Arcadias of Pantomime':  Ruskin, Theater, and the Illustrated London News," Victorian Pantomime:  A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Jim Davis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010:  41-53

The King and Who?  Dance, Difference, and Identity in Anna Leonowens and The King and I," Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature, edited by Dinah Birch and Mark Llewellyn (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010):  171-185

Jane Heir to the Glimmering World:  Cynthia Ozick's Victorian Vision," Studies in Jewish American Literature 28 (2009):  3-13

 "Sondheim's Sweeney Todd on Stage and Screen," Victorian Literature and Culture 37.1 (2009):  301-310

Victorians on the Contemporary Stage,” Journal of Victorian Culture 13.2 (October 2008):  303-309

“Re-Interpreting Ruskin,” Nineteenth-Century Prose 35.1 (Spring 2008):  1-12

“Victorians on Broadway at the Present Time: Ruskin's Life on Stage,” Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time(2002): 

“Pantomime Truth and Gender Performance: John Ruskin on Theatre,”John Ruskin and Gender, edited by Dinah Birch and Francis O'Gorman (Palgrave 2002)

“Myth and Gender in Ruskin's Science,”Ruskin and the Dawn of Modernism, edited by Dinah Birch (Oxford UP, 1999)

“Mythic Language and Gender Subversion: The Case of Ruskin's Athena,” Nineteenth-Century Literature(1997)

“Be no more housewives, but Queens; Queen Victoria in Ruskin's Domestic Mythology,” Remaking Queen Victoria, edited by Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich (Cambridge UP1997)

"Female and Maelstrom: The Gender Vortex in Carlyle and Ruskin” Carlyle Annual(1997)

“Performing Goblin Market," Essays on Transgressive Readings: Reading over the Lines, edited by Georgia Johnston (Edwin Mellen 1997)

“Gender and the Architectonics of Metaphor in Ruskin's The Ethics of the Dust,” Prose Studies(1993)

"The Least of It: Metaphor, Metamorphosis, and Synecdoche in Frost’s ‘The Subverted Flower,’” The South Carolina Review(1989)

 

Annotated Bibliographies

"Christina Rossetti."  Oxford University Press Bibliographies Online (2011)

"John Ruskin."  Oxford University Press Bibliographies Online (2011)

"Charlotte Bronte."  Co-authored with Doris Raab.  Oxford University Press Bibliographies Online (2011)

 

Works in Progress

Book manuscript tentatively called Victorians on Broadway: The Afterlife of Victorian Literature on the Musical Stage, 1951-2000