Alexander Welsh (April 29, 1933 – April 11, 2018) was an American philologist, the author of books including '' Freud's Wishful Dream Book'' (1994). Born on April 29, 1933, Welsh served in the United States Army. He earned a doctorate from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, then taught at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

between 1960 and 1967. Welsh subsequently joined the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...

faculty and later the

University of California Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

, before returning to Yale in 1991, where he was named the Emily Sanford Professor of English. Welsh was awarded a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in 1969, and served as editor of ''

Nineteenth-Century Literature ''Nineteenth-Century Literature'' is a literary journal published by University of California Press. It publishes articles dealing with British and American literature of the 19th century. The journal was established in 1945 as ''The Trollopian' ...

'' between 1975 and 1981. He died on April 11, 2018, aged 84, survived by his partner,

Ruth Yeazell Ruth Bernard Yeazell (born April 4, 1947) is an American literary critic. Ruth Bernard Yeazell was born on April 4, 1947, in New York City. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1967, then attended Yale University. Yeazell taught at the Univers ...

, who also taught at Yale, and three children.

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