WELTMAN, SHARON
PROFESSOR
210-D Allen Hall
578-2857
enwelt@lsu.edu
Education: BA, Texas-Austin; MAT, Texas-Dallas; MA, MPhil, PhD, Rutgers.
Research interests: Victorian literature, Romantic literature, adaptations of Victorian materials, literary theory, feminist theory, gender studies, myth, nineteenth-century theater, Broadway musicals.
Books: Performing the Victorian: John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education (2007); Ruskin's Mythic Queen: Gender Subversion in Victorian Culture (1998).
Essays: “Introduction,” Nineteenth-Century Prose special issue on John Ruskin, ed. Sharon Aronofsky Weltman (forthcoming Spring 2008);“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 (2002); “Myth and Gender in Ruskin's Science,” Ruskin and the Dawn of Modernism (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 (1997); “Female and Maelstrom: The Gender Vortex in Carlyle and Ruskin,” Carlyle Annual (1997); “Performing Goblin Market,” Essays on Transgressive Readings: Reading over the Lines (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).
Works in Progress: book manuscript,Victorians on Broadway: The Cultural Work of American Musical Theater's Obsession with Victorian England ; essay manuscript: “Jane Heir to the Glimmering World: Cynthia Ozick’s Victorian Vision.”
Awards and honors (selected): 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.