Our beloved colleague Prof. Steven F. Walker passed away quietly in his sleep at the age of 80 on December 12, 2024. He retired from Rutgers in 2021 after decades of service to Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, and the SAS Honors program.
Prof. Walker introduced generations of Rutgers students to the study of myth, ancient and modern. He is the author of many books and articles on classical Greek and South Asian writing and on Jungian criticism, among them Jung and the Jungians on Myth (2002), Midlife Transformation in Literature and Film: Jungian and Eriksonian Perspectives (2012), and Cryptic Subtexts in Modern Literature and Film: Secret Messages and Buried Treasure (2018), all published by Routledge.
Steven is survived by his wife, Janet Walker, who first met him in fall 1963. Together they pursued an intellectual journey to Harvard as graduate students and then to Rutgers as professors of Comparative Literature.