William C. Watterson ’76 PhD

William C. Watterson ’76 PhD, of Brunswick, Me.; May 1. He joined the English department of Bowdoin as an assistant professor in 1976. He was promoted to associate professor in 1983, full professor in 1992, and in 1999 was named the Edward Little Professor of English Language and Literature. He was the author of two books of poetry, numerous reviews, and articles in journals that included the Milton Quarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Bowdoin Alumni Magazine. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. For several years he was a judge for the Longfellow Prize for poetry in Maine and he was a trustee of the New York School of Interior Design from 1983 to 1990. He is survived by a brother and several nieces and nephews.