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February 09, 2005
My first rock star
In 1984 I attended my first MLA, in New York. I was a pure intellectual hayseed, in the city for the first time in my life. I got on an elevator in the conference hotel, and the small woman next to me was wearing a name tag that said, "Louise Rosenblatt." And my heart nearly stopped. I was awed. And speechless.
It's good to know that Louise Rosenblatt enjoyed a very long life. Like innumerable other people in English studies, I am profoundly a better teacher and theorist for having read her work carefully during my "formative" years. May she rest in peace.
Posted by senioritis at February 9, 2005 05:16 PM
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I've enjoyed reading the stories about her on WPA-L. My own fun moment was lending lip gloss to Cheryl Glenn at my first C's.
Posted by: susansinclair at February 9, 2005 05:41 PM
aleshia & i are supposed to present on her the reader, the text, the poem in l's class next-next tuesday, so we're all brand-new & just discovering her. & so are torches passed from hand to hand to...
Posted by: tyratae at February 9, 2005 08:12 PM