Please join us in congratulating Comp Lit major Andrea Tchesnovsky as one of the winners of the 2024 campus-wide essay contest "Why Do I Learn Languages" organized by Professors Ela Gezen and Teresa Ramsb- see link below.
UMass Amherst Libraries Publish Latest Open Educational Resource: Writing the World 2023-2024
AMHERST, Mass.—The University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries are pleased to announce the publication of Writing the World 2023-2024, the latest anthology from the UMass Comparative Literature Program. This Open Educational Resource (OER) showcases the analytical prowess and creative depth of undergraduate students as they explore pressing societal issues, literary traditions and theories, and cross-cultural themes.
We are excited to announce the second annual awarding of the David Lenson Fellowship and to tell you a bit about the newest awardees. These talented young scholars are shovel ready for travel and study abroad!
On November 7, 2024-5:00pm, in Herter 301, Professor Nathan Abrams (Bangor, Wales) will deliver the semestrial Amesbury Lecture entitled "A postcard to his forefathers? - on Stanley Kubrick's unrealized Holocaust project, Aryan Papers"
Cosponsored through the Amesbury Chair, the department of Literature, Languages, and
Cultures, the Film Studies program, and the Judaic and Near Eastern Studies program.
LITERATURE BEFORE THE CATASTROPHE: THE ARMENIAN QUESTION AND THE JEWISH QUESTION IN THE WORKS OF RAFFI (HAKOB MELIK HAKOBIAN), THEODOR HERZL, ARTHUR SCHNITZLER, ZABEL YESAYAN, AND FRANZ WERFEL