James Parker Mall

Mall James ("Jim") Parker Passed away on June 24, 2023, in Champaign, IL. He was the beloved husband of 41 years to Laurence Mall and beloved father to son Nicholas Mall and daughter-in-law Megan Mall. Born September 1, 1938, in Atchison, KS, he was the son of Herbert Mall, a pharmacist in Atchison, and Beth Mall, née Anna Elizabeth O'Neil, from Kansas City. He earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Kansas, an M.A. in French at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and a PhD in French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a professor of French at Temple University from 1968 to 2000. He also was director of Temple Rome from 1986 to 1988, director of Temple's Education Abroad program at the Sorbonne in Paris in the '80s and '90s, director of the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program, editor of The Faculty Herald, chair of the French Department, and a devoted teacher. His unfailing and marvelous sense of humor, his brilliant mind, his erudition, his strength, his integrity, and his deep humanity will be greatly missed.