Teacher Talk with Dr. Zarlengo

Dr. Zarlengo (colloquially known as Kzar)  is a favorite in the English department. Check out contributor Noah Mohammed's interview with her below.


Pixel Journal: What is the best thing about the OHS, in your opinion?

Dr. Zarlengo: This one is easy: the people! Students here are so excited and engaging during discussion that after class, I often have to look around to remember what room I am in!

 

PJ: What is the funniest thing that has ever happened at a meet-up with OHSers?

Dr. Zarlengo: This one is hard because I laugh quite a lot when meeting with OHSers. Perhaps one discussion I had with a student and his family, in a pizzeria, that was so interesting that my son, who is 8, resorted to jumping up and down -- for a long time, poor guy -- in order to snap us out of it. Good physical comedy, that episode.

 

PJ: What is your favorite course to teach, and why?

Dr. Zarlengo: This one is impossible. It sounds corny -- I know -- but it is true that I love TAA and Legal Studies equally (just in different ways).

 

PJ: Outside of the OHS, what are some of your favorite hobbies and/or activities?

Dr. Zarlengo: I am just going to take a few recent highlights from this last week: Hanging out with my family while camping in the forest; watching "The Third Man," complete with music from a live organist who pops out of the floor, at the Stanford Theater; gabbing with my colleagues at OHS about almost anything; commuting on my junky bicycles; thinking about Richard III in the context of the presidential elections; checking out a new show at Pace Gallery (#neurosociety); watching Brain Games with my sons (thanks, Kalee!).

 

PJ: If the opportunity were to arise, would you bake a pie for every one of your students?

Dr. Zarlengo: Well, sure ... if I could bake a pie at all. As it is, I could bake a cookie for each.

TeachersNoah Mohammed '19