LOUISE-DeSALVO-Obituary

LOUISE DeSALVO

Montclair, New Jersey

Age 76

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DIED
October 31, 2018
AGE
76
LOCATION
Montclair, New Jersey

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Louise A. DeSalvo, Ph.D. Distinguished scholar at Hunter College and authority on Virginia Woolf; influential memoirist on Italian-American culture; her conviction: 'words are an instrument of change,' of Montclair, 76 It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of beloved...

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Hi Profession Louise, I think of you often and miss you. God bless you.

Hi Professor Louis, you are always in my heart.

Louise was my favorite professor ever! She was amazing. She would let me eat with her in the faculty cafeteria. She would close her door if students had serious topics to discuss; she was a GREAT listener! She taught D.H.Lawrence so beautifully, and I have taught him too. She taught me fiction and non-fiction writing. So much of who she was as a scholar and teacher have informed my own life. Bless you, Ernie, Justin, and Jason, and your families.

Louise was a patient here for several years. She has loved by my whole office including staff and patients lucky enough to know her. There was always a smile on her face and her humility was such that no one knew how well known she was.
We will miss her.
Lesley Ann Fein MD

Surprised to see and hear you went
to the Lord so soon. Thank you so much for your great education. I learned the most from you. I'm reading the Art of Slow Writing. Thanks for the inspirations.

I am so sorry to hear of Louise's passing.. I was so blessed to be her student several times during my years as an undergraduate at Hunter College. She was a great teacher, a source of encouragement and a mentor. She nurtured me as a writer and later as a teacher. She will be missed and forgotten.. Praying for her family!


Joan Stillman praised Louise DeSalvo's teaching at Hunter enthusiastically. This impressed me
thus I read her book about VW. Glad to learn of Douglass college education.