Rosanne M Welch

Dr. Rosanne Welch is a television writer and university professor of Humanities in the IGE Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; and is the Executive Director of the MFA in TV and Screenwriting for Stephens College. Her current books include When Women Wrote Hollywood, a collection of essays of famous female screenwriters (which was named runner up for the Susan Koppelman Award honoring the best anthology, multi-authored, or edited book in feminist studies by the Popular Culture Association) and Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture. Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection (ABC-CLIO, 2017), which she co-edited with her Cal Poly Pomona colleague and officemate, Dr. Peg Lamphier, was named to both the 2018 Outstanding References Sources List and to the list of Best Historical Materials, by the American Library Association in 2018. Check out both as they are in the stacks in our campus library!  Together Welch and Lamphier also wrote The Civil War on Film in 2020.

Welch has also published chapters in Torchwood Declassified: Investigating Mainstream Cult Television (I.B.Tauris) and Doctor Who: New Dawn:  Essays on the Jodie Whittaker Era (2021).  In her previous life, Welch was a television writer/producer with credits that include Beverly Hills 90210, Picket Fences and Touched by an Angel and ABC NEWS/Nightline. She gave the talk “The Importance of Having a Female Voice in the Room” at the 2016 TEDxCPP which can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JFNsqKBRnA. A collection of her popular culture library lectures can be found on her YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/DrRosanneWelch or on TikTok.