Phyllis Weliver, D. Phil.
Professor
English
Research Interests
Victorian Literature and Culture; Music and Literature; Women鈥檚 Studies
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I welcome graduate students who wish to focus on Victorian literature, including poems,
novels, essays, lifewriting, plays, and/or opera, as well as the interdisciplinary
study of music and literature.
Publications and Media Placements
Monographs
Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
The Musical Crowd in English Fiction, 1840鈥�1910: Class, Culture and Nation. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860鈥�1900: Representations of Music, Science and Gender in the Leisured Home. Ashgate, 2000; Routledge, 2016.
Edited Books
Reading Texts in Nineteenth-Century Music and Literature. Eds Phyllis Weliver and
Katharine Ellis. Boydell & Brewer, 2025.
Words and Notes in the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. and intro. Phyllis Weliver and Katharine Ellis. Boydell & Brewer, 2013.
The Figure of Music in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry. Ed. and intro. Phyllis Weliver. Ashgate, 2005; Routledge, 2016.
Edited Journal
Victorian Poetry 60.2. Special issue: Victorian Poetry and the Salon. Eds Linda K. Hughes and Phyllis Weliver (Summer 2022): 105鈥�275.
Honors and Awards
2024 (Invited) Macgeorge Fellow and Honorary Visitor, University of Melbourne, Australia
2020 (Invited) Visiting Research Fellow, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, UK
2020 Visiting Scholar, St Catharine鈥檚 College, University of Cambridge
2015 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (12 months)
2013鈥�14 Visiting Scholar, St Catharine鈥檚 College, University of Cambridge
2011 (Invited) Fellow, Gladstone鈥檚 Library, Hawarden, Wales (lifetime appointment)
2005 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend