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]