Rosanne Welch
MFA Program Executive Director
Education
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University; M.A., California State University, Northridge; B.A., Bowling Green State University, Ohio
About Rosanne Welch
Rosanne Welch, Ph.D., serves as executive director of Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting, where she created a set of History of Screenwriting courses and teaches courses in One-Hour Drama. Her television writing credits include Beverly Hills 90210, Picket Fences, ABC News: Nightline and Touched by an Angel. Welch edited When Women Wrote Hollywood (2018), which was named runner up for the Susan Koppelman Award honoring the best multi-authored or edited book in feminist studies by the Popular Culture Association. She co-edited Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia (named to both the 2018 Outstanding References Sources List and the list of Best Historical Materials by the American Library Association). Her books include Why the Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Popular Culture (2016) and American Women’s History on Film (2023). Welch has also published chapters in Doctor Who – New Dawn: Essays on the Jodie Whittaker era (2020) and the forthcoming “Handled with Care: Anne Frank on Film” chapter in Stories of the Holocaust Onstage and In Concert: Art for Healing and Renewal.
Welch serves as book reviews editor for the Journal of Screenwriting and on the editorial board for Written By magazine and the California Journal and writes a monthly column for Script Magazine “celebrating the female screenwriters who came before us.” She served on the executive committee of the International Screenwriting Research Network for a two-year term and brought the international 2023 Screenwriting Research Network Conference to the Stephens College campus. You can listen to her talk, “The Importance of Having a Female Voice in the Room,” from the TEDxCPP and find her other recorded lectures on her YouTube channel.