Alexander Welsh

Alexander Welsh (April 29, 1933 – April 11, 2018) was an American philologist, the author of books including Freud's Wishful Dream Book. He earned a doctorate from Harvard University, then taught at Yale University between 1960 and 1967. and served as editor of Nineteenth-Century Literature between 1975 and 1981. He died on April 11, 2018, aged 84, survived by his partner, Ruth Yeazell, who also taught at Yale, and three children.