Adaline Erlbacher Glasheen (born 1920 in Evansville, Indiana – died 1993) was a Joyce scholar who specialised in the study of Finnegans Wake.
She later received her MA in English Literature when she began seminal work on Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Glasheen became part of an international group of Joyce scholars including Thornton Wilder, Hugh Kenner, Clive Hart, James Atherton, Richard Ellmann, and Louis Mink; who were devoted to the study of Finnegans Wake.
A Tour of the Darkling Plain: The "Finnegans Wake" Letters of Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen, ed.
Edward M. Burns with Joshua A. Gaylord (University College Dublin Press, 2001) and A Passion for Joyce: The Letters of Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen, ed.