[Vwoolf] article in Chronicle mentioning Mrs D.

[Emily Kopley]

Hello Woolfians,

This week's Chronicle of Higher Ed has a beautiful essay on teaching
English to high school students, the zenith of which concerns _Mrs
Dalloway_. The article is "What my Ph. D. Taught Me," by Jessica
Levenstein, an English teacher at Horace Mann, and the link is
http://chronicle.com/article/A-Literature-PhD-Goes-to/138247/.

Here is the Woolfian bit:

"Every now and then, in the classroom, there are transcendent moments that
surpass my own great expectations, formed in the classrooms of my
astounding professors. Last spring, as we finished discussing Clarissa
Dalloway's June day, we read aloud Clarissa's reaction to the news of
Septimus's suicide: "A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed
about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day
in corruption, lies, chatter."

"The room was quiet for a moment, as my students considered what that
"thing" might be for Clarissa, and what it might be for them. Finally, an
11th-grade girl at the far end of the table sighed, "I wish I could always
be in the middle of reading *Mrs. Dalloway.*" Become a teacher, I thought,
and your wish can come true.
Best,
Emily

-- 
Emily Kopley
Ph. D. Candidate, English Literature
Stanford University
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