Roberta Weldon
Associate Professor
- Phone: (713) 743-2944
- Email: rweldon@uh.edu
- Office: 221 Roy Cullen Building
Roberta Weldon specializes in American literature before the Civil War, and is particularly interested in early nineteenth-century American fiction. She has published articles on the fiction of Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, and Nathaniel Hawthorne in such journals as American Transcendental Quarterly, Texas Studies in Language and Literature, Studies in Short Fiction, and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal. She is currently at work on a book on gender, death, and Hawthorne's fiction. She has been named Outstanding Professor in the English Department by Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society and "Top Prof" by the Mortar Board Honor Society. She has also received the University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award and the College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication Distinguished Teacher Award.
Education
- Ph.D., Harvard University
- M.A., Harvard University
- B.A., St. John's University
