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Rosanne Welch

MFA Program Executive Director

Conservatory for the Performing Arts
Rosanne Welch

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 91ɬ 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 includeBeverly Hills 90210, Picket Fences, ABC News: Nightline and Touched by an Angel. Welch editedWhen 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 includeWhy the Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Popular Culture(2016) andAmerican Women’s History on Film(2023).Welch has also published chapters inDoctor Who – New Dawn: Essays on the Jodie Whittaker era(2020) and the forthcoming “Handled with Care: Anne Frank on Film” chapterin 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 “.” 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 91ɬ campus. You can listen to her talk, “,” from the TEDxCPP and find her other recorded lectures on her.

And you can see Dr. Welch discuss her time as a writer-producer on the CBS classic Touched by an Angelby watching the CW show TV We Loveat: