Phyllis Weliver


Phyllis Weliver (born September 28, 1968) is an American academic specializing in Victorian literature and music history.

Phyllis Weliver
Phyllis Weliver in London, March 2018
BornSeptember 28, 1968
NationalityAmerican
OccupationAcademic

Career

Weliver 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
  • 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
gollark: osmarks.tk internal configuration mostly, no.
gollark: Most of my stuff is MIT-licensed so you can use it.
gollark: Intellectual property, not internet protocol address.
gollark: Most non-predictable-in-some-way numbers above 64 bits PROBABLY won't practically end up randomly turning up anywhere, but it's interesting.
gollark: An interesting consequence of intellectual property weirdness and the fact that I own some IP is that a veeeery large set of numbers representing reversible transforms of my IP are illegal to use in some ways without my permission.

References
  1. "Who's Who in Humanities: Phyllis Weliver". humanities.academickeys.com. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  2. "News of Members". The St Catharine's Magazine. 2015.
  3. "Fellowships 2014". neh.gov.
  4. Facts page, NEH Summer Stipends, June 2005.
  5. 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.
  6. Weliver, Phyllis (March 2015). "Unsung Heroines of Classical Music: Mary Gladstone". The Essay, BBC Radio 3.
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