Mull, Donald Locke Obituary

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Graduation Year	Class of 1953
Date of Passing	Nov 10, 2017
About	Donald Locke Mull, an Associate Professor of American literature at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey, died in Philadelphia on November 10, 2017, at the age of 81. Don Mull was born on the 17th of May, 1936. He graduated with a B.A. from Kenyon College and earned a Ph.D. in English Literature from Yale University. In 1974, he joined the faculty of Rutgers University in Camden, where he taught courses in the American novel, the World novel, and film. He retired and was appointed an Emeritus professor in 2002. Professor Mull's scholarship focused on the world's great novels. His book, "Henry James's "Sublime Economy": Money as Symbolic Center in the Fictions" (1973) was a study of the power of money to inspire the imagination, but also to restrict its freedom. Don Mull is survived by his cousins, Jill Flinchbaugh and her brother John Samonsky, of western Pennsylvania. His death is mourned by his colleagues and friends, who remember his love for art, opera, classical music, and travel. His former students recall with great affection the intelligence and wit with which he lectured on the greatest works of Western literature.