MARK YOUR CALENDAR: OCTOBER 23

English and Creative Writing major senior, Nada Shawish, was recently awarded a scholarship to attend the 2008 NY State Summer Writers Institute. According to the press release, over 350 applications were received, and Nada was one of thirty selected. Below, read more, in her own words, about Nada’s success and her representation of the GW…

Suhayl Saadi describes his talk on Monday, October 13, 2008; 8:15 p.m. (Media and Public Affairs Building. Room B07, 801 21st NW at H St NW, Washington, D.C. ) thus:¡Quejío!: Shout!’ A partial understanding of the interweaving ontologies of language, memory, time and place forms the basis of any creative literary endeavour. Mapping this process…

Joe Fisher’s student-run blog, entitled “You Made Me Theorize,” is up and running. The blog is a class project of English 120, “Critical Methods.” The course examines the history and diversity of interpretive modes for literature and culture. Professor Fisher invites all readers to follow–and comment on–what will surely be spirited debates about Russian formalism,…

Get to Know Your TA: Nedda Mehdizadeh We have all seen the television commercials for the Sylvan Learning Centers, the national tutoring institution, but most of us did not follow up on the ad. However Nedda Mehdizadeh’s first job was as an English tutor there after she saw that very same commercial we all did….

Prof. Patty Chu will be giving a lunchtime lecture titled “Narratives of Return: An Asian American Photographic Odyssey,” at the National Gallery of Art on Monday, May 17. The talk will be in the East (I.M. Pei) Wing, Small Auditorium, at 12:10 and again at 1:10. It runs 30 minutes, with time for Q&A. Here…

On Feb. 24, the English department cosponsored an event with the Office of the President honoring new Folger Shakespeare Library Director Michael Witmore, who assumed the position in July after the retirement of GW Prof. Emerita Gail Kern Paster. Pres. Knapp and Diane Knapp opened the F Street House to about three dozen invitees, including…