Alexander Welsh

Alexander Welsh (April 29, 1933 – April 11, 2018) was an American philologist.

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Alexander Welsh, preeminent scholar of British prose". Yale University. April 12, 2018. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Alexander Welsh". Yale University. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Alexander Welsh". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
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