Alexander Welsh
Alexander Welsh (April 29, 1933 – April 11, 2018) was an American philologist, the author of books including Freud's Wishful Dream Book (1994).[1]
Born on April 29, 1933, Welsh served in the United States Army.[2] He earned a doctorate from Harvard University,[1] then taught at Yale University between 1960 and 1967.[2] Welsh subsequently joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty and later the University of California Los Angeles, before returning to Yale in 1991,[2] where he was named the Emily Sanford Professor of English.[1] Welsh was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1969,[3] and served as editor of Nineteenth-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]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Alexander Welsh". Yale University. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
- ^ a b c d e "Alexander Welsh, preeminent scholar of British prose". Yale University. April 12, 2018. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
- ^ "Alexander Welsh". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
