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Commonwealth Honors College recently featured an article written by Leila Metres, UMass student and CHC communications assistant, entitled How Picking Up Arabic in College Has Reignited My Love of Learning.

The article features Professor Nahla Khalil, Director of LLC Arabic

https://www.umass.edu/honors/news/picking-arabic-college

On July 30, 2025, between 11:00am-2:00pm ET. PhD candidate Kate Edwards will be defending their dissertation entitled: "Transformative Encounters: Metamorphoses in Eastern and Central European Media".

Award-winning poet and Comparative Literature Ph.D. student Selma Asotić will publish her first book, Say Fire, with Archipelago Press in September 2025. The book, which has been heralded as a "masterful debut," is available for pre-order now through Penguin Random House and Archipelago Books.

Join us on Tuesday, May 6, 2025- Herter 301, at 11:30 a.m.

Ved Shankavaram is pleased to present their Commonwealth College Honors thesis focused on the development of the discipline of television studies, “From the Idiot Box to Peak TV: A Pedagogical History of Television Studies - Past, Present and Future".

Refreshments will be served

Join us on Thursday, May 1, 2025-Herter 301, from 2:30-3:30pm

This research, culminating in a thesis-length essay, takes a critical approach to speech-language pathology through disability studies along with decolonial and critical race studies. Jav has already presented this project at the Undergraduate Research Conference and NeMLA.

on Tuesday, May 13, between 10:30am and 12:30pm, Enrique Urbina will defend his MA thesis, entitled "Haunted World-Ecologies and Collapsed Environments in Contemporary Haunted Houses Across the Americas"

on Wednesday, May 7, between 9 and 11am, Aishwarya Marathe will defend her MA thesis, entitled "Ghar Ki Baat: Narratives of Domestic Violence Trauma in Indian Literature and Film"

The defense will be held in Herter 601
 

Naves inventoras de regiones: Colonial Spanish American Epic Poetry and the Invention of America