WELSH, Alexander 1933-

PERSONAL: Born April 29, 1933, in Albany, NY; married Katharine C. Tower, 1956; children: three. Education: Harvard University, A.B., 1954, A.M., 1957, Ph. D., 1961.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of English, University of California—Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024.

CAREER: Yale University, New Haven, CT, instructor, 1960-63, assistant professor, 1963-66, associate professor of English, 1966-67; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, professor of English, 1967-72; University of California—Los Angeles, professor of English, beginning 1972. Military service: U.S. Army, 1954-56.

MEMBER: Modern Language Association of America, Phi Beta Kappa.

AWARDS, HONORS: Guggenheim fellow, 1969-70; National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, 1977.

WRITINGS:

The Hero of the Waverley Novels, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 1963, reprinted with new essays on Scott, expanded edition, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1992.

(Editor) Sir Walter Scott, Old Mortality, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1966.

(Editor) Thackeray: A Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1968.

The City of Dickens, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1971.

Reflections on the Hero As Quixote, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1981.

From Copyright to Copperfield: The Identity of Dickens, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1987.

Strong Representations: Narrative and Circumstantial Evidence in England, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1992.

Freud's Wishful Dream Book, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1994.

Dickens Redressed: The Art of "Bleak House" and "Hard Times," Yale University Press (New Haven, CT), 2000.

Hamlet in His Modern Guises, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 2001.

Contributor to periodicals, including New Republic and Yale Review.*