Professor Louise DeSalvo
Louise DeSalvo is the Jenny Hunter Distinguished Scholar for Literature and Creative Writing at Hunter College. She founded the MFA in Memoir at Hunter College, where she has taught for over thirty years. She currently teaches memoir to undergraduates at Hunter. She has published nineteen books, among them, Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her Life and Work , named one of the most important books of the 20th century by The Women's Review of Books ; the memoirs Vertigo ,...See more
Louise DeSalvo is the Jenny Hunter Distinguished Scholar for Literature and Creative Writing at Hunter College. She founded the MFA in Memoir at Hunter College, where she has taught for over thirty years. She currently teaches memoir to undergraduates at Hunter. She has published nineteen books, among them, Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her Life and Work , named one of the most important books of the 20th century by The Women's Review of Books ; the memoirs Vertigo , winner of the Gay Talese Prize, Breathless , Adultery , Crazy in the Kitchen , and On Moving , as well as Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Can Change Our Lives and The Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity . She has received the President's Award for Research from Hunter College, the Douglass Society Award, and the Acerbi Award, among other honors. She is currently working on a book about D. H. Lawrence. See less