Phyllis Weliver (born September 28, 1968) is an American academic specializing in Victorian literature and music history.
Phyllis Weliver | |
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 Phyllis Weliver in London, March 2018 | |
| Born | September 28, 1968 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Academic |
Career
editWeliver completed first degrees at Oberlin College, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and the University of Cambridge, and her doctoral studies at the University of Sussex.[1] She taught at Wilkes University, and is now Professor of English at Saint Louis University.
In 2011, Weliver became a lifetime Fellow of Gladstone's Library in Wales. She was a visiting scholar at St Catharine's College, Cambridge for the 2013–14 academic year.[2] She received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2015,[3] and a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend in 2004.[4]
Her publications focus on the nineteenth-century novel, Victorian poetry, and music in nineteenth-century Britain. In 2016, she began Sounding Tennyson , the first test case for adding sound to the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). She has also contributed to BBC Two Television[5] and to BBC Radio 3.[6]
Selected publications
edit- Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism, Cambridge (2017)
- Words and Notes in the Long Nineteenth Century, with Katharine Ellis, Boydell & Brewer (2013)
- The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840–1910: Class, Culture and Nation, Palgrave Macmillan (2006)
- The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry. Ed. and intro. Phyllis Weliver. Ashgate (2005); Routledge (2016)
- Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860–1900: Representations of Music, Science and Gender in the Leisured Home, Ashgate (2000), Routledge (2016)
- Sounding Tennyson
References
edit- ^ "Who's Who in Humanities: Phyllis Weliver". humanities.academickeys.com. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^ "News of Members". The St Catharine's Magazine. 2015.
- ^ "Fellowships 2014". neh.gov.
- ^ Facts page, NEH Summer Stipends, June 2005.
- ^ Weliver, Phyllis (May 2009). Interviewee, The Birth of British Music: Mendelssohn – The Prophet, BBC Two Television Series. Presented by Charles Hazlewood. Produced by Francesca Kemp.
- ^ Weliver, Phyllis (March 2015). "Unsung Heroines of Classical Music: Mary Gladstone". The Essay, BBC Radio 3.
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