Rosanne Welch (Ph.D.) is the Executive Director of the Stephens College MFA program in TV and Screenwriting in LA. She has written for
Beverly Hills 90210, Picket Fences, ABCNEWS: Nightline, and
Touched by an Angel. She edited
When Women Wrote Hollywood (2018), runner up for the Susan Koppelman feminist studies award; co-edited
Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia, named to Outstanding References Sources List and Best Historical Materials (2018). She authored
Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Popular Culture (2016) and the novel
A Man of Action Saving Liberty: A Novel Based on the Life of Giuseppe Garibaldi (2020). Welch is Book Reviews editor for the
Journal of Screenwriting and serves on the Editorial Boards for
California History Journal. You can find her TEDxCPP talk “The Importance of Having a Female Voice in the Room”
here.
