Alexander Welsh
Alexander Welsh (April 29, 1933 – April 11, 2018) was an American language scholar and literary critic. He wrote Freud's Wishful Dream Book (1994). After serving in the U.S. Army, he earned a Ph.D. from Harvard and taught at Yale from 1960 to 1967. He then worked at the University of Pittsburgh and UCLA, returning to Yale in 1991 as the Emily Sanford Professor of English. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1969 and was editor of the journal Nineteenth-Century Literature from 1975 to 1981. Welsh died on April 11, 2018, at age 84. He is survived by his partner, Ruth Yeazell, also a Yale professor, and their three children.
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