Phyllis Weliver, D. Phil.

Professor
English

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Research Interests

Victorian Literature and Culture; Music and Literature; Women’s Studies

For a full portfolio, visit my website.

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, 1840–1910: Class, Culture and Nation. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860–1900: 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): 105–275.

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’s College, University of Cambridge

2015 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (12 months)

2013–14 Visiting Scholar, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge

2011 (Invited) Fellow, Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, Wales (lifetime appointment)

2005 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend