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

Awards & Honors
  • ATLAS year-long research fellowship, 2012-2013 
  • LSU Distinguished Faculty Award, 2012
  • Board of Regents Enhancement Grant, 2009-2011
  • LSU Flagship Faculty, 2011  
  • Sigma Tau Delta (International English Honor Society) LSU Chapter:  Favorite Professor Award, 2008 
  • LSU Alumni Association Faculty Excellence Award, 2006
  • Outstanding Academic Book award for Ruskin's Mythic Queen, 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

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 38.1 (June 2011).  Manchester University Press ( actual release 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 Best Essays on Dickens Adaptations, edited by John Glavin (Ashgate 2012).  
  • 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