Alexander Welsh (April 29, 1933 – April 11, 2018) was an American philologist, the author of books includingFreud's Wishful Dream Book (1994).^[1]

Born on April 29, 1933, Welsh served in the United States Army.^[2] He earned a doctorate fromHarvard University,^[1] then taught atYale University between 1960 and 1967.^[2] Welsh subsequently joined theUniversity of Pittsburgh faculty and later theUniversity of California Los Angeles, before returning to Yale in 1991,^[2] where he was named theEmily Sanford Professor of English.^[1] Welsh was awarded aGuggenheim Fellowship in 1969,^[3] and served as editor ofNineteenth-Century Literature between 1975 and 1981.^[2] He died on April 11, 2018, aged 84, survived by his partner,Ruth Yeazell, who also taught at Yale, and three children.^[2]

• 1933 births
• 2018 deaths
• Harvard University alumni
• Yale University faculty
• University of California, Los Angeles faculty
• American academic journal editors
• University of Pittsburgh faculty
• 20th-century American philologists
• 21st-century philologists
• American academics of English literature

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