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IN MEMORIAM

 

William Walling William Walling died unexpectedly, from a heart attack, on December 3, 2007. He was 74. Professor Wallling earned his PhD from New York University in 1966, and published a literary biography of Mary Shelley in 1972. At Rutgers, he taught courses on William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens. He also launched the English department’s film studies program. Two Fulbright teaching fellowships took him and his family to Algeria in 1969 and Senegal in 1979. He taught at Rutgers for four decades and retired in May 2006.