Rosanne Welch

Rosanne Welch, Phd, serves as Executive Director of Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting where she created a set of History of Screenwriting courses. Her television writing credits include Beverly Hills 90210, Picket Fences, ABCNEWS: Nightline and Touched by an Angel. Welch edited When Women Wrote Hollywood (2018), 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. She co-edited Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia (named to both the 2018 Outstanding References Sources List and to the list of Best Historical Materials, by the American Library Association); co-wrote American Women’s History on Film (2023) and wrote Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Popular Culture (2016) and American Women’s History on Film (20230. Welch serves as Book Reviews editor for Journal of Screenwriting; and on the Editorial Board for the California History Journal. In 2022 she was elected to Chair the Executive Committee of the International Screenwriting Research Network for two-year term.

You can find her talk “The Importance of Having a Female Voice in the Room” from the TEDxCPP here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JFNsqKBRnA

and other recorded lectures on her YouTube Channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/DrRosanneWelch