Shatha Alhawamdeh
- Lecturer of Arabic
Areas of Study
Education
- PhD, Kent State University
- International Research School for Media Translation and Digital Culture, SISU Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies
- MA, Bridgewater State University
- Bridgewater at Oxford Summer Program, University of Oxford
- BA, Tafila Technical University
Biography
Shatha Alhawamdeh earned a PhD in translation studies at Kent State University in 2025. At Oberlin, she teaches Beginning and Intermediate Arabic along with the First-Year Seminar, Reel vs. Real: Decoding Media Representations of the Arab World.
Her broader research interests include Arabic, the reception of Arabic literature in translation and film, translation studies, comparative literature, and media representation. She served as the Arabic program coordinator at Kent State University and taught several Arabic and translation courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Her work has been presented at national and international venues, including ATISA and the SISU Baker Centre Summer School. She also served on the organizing committee for Kaleidoscopic Translation Studies, an international conference hosted by Kent State University. She has served as an editorial board member and reviewer for academic journals in the fields of translation, Arabic, and media studies. Her research has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals, including Translation, Cognition & Behavior (Q1).
Fall 2025
Reel vs. Real: Decoding Media Representations of the Arab World — FYSP 035
Beginning Arabic I — ARBC 101
Intermediate Arabic — ARBC 201
Spring 2026
Beginning Arabic II — ARBC 102
Intermediate Arabic II — ARBC 202
- Abu-Rayyash, H., and S. Alhawamdeh. “Morphological Complexity as a Predictor of Cognitive Effort in Neural Machine Translation Post-Editing.” Translation, Cognition & Behavior (2024).
- Abu-Rayyash, H., S. Alhawamdeh, and Y. Ringomon. “The Eye-Ear Relationship: Investigating Auditory Impacts on Subtitle Reading and Comprehension.” Texto Livre 17 (2024).
- Abu-Rayyash, H., S. Alhawamdeh, H. Alghufaily, and S. Asadi. “Effects of Typographic Salience on the Processing and Acquisition of Reversed Subtitles.” Media and Intercultural Communication 2(1) (2024).
- Abu-Rayyash, H., and S. Alhawamdeh. “SubCom: A Parallel Corpus of English-Arabic Comedy Shows Subtitles.” Research Journal in Advanced Humanities 4(3) (2023).
- Alhawamdeh, S., and C. Zhang. “Wellness of Interpreters: Stress-Related Occupational Hazards and Possible Solutions.” New Voices in Translation Studies (2021).
- Zhang, C., and S. Alhawamdeh. “Integrating CAI Tools and ASR in the Interpreting Classroom: Proposal for a Lesson Plan Using InterpretBank.” Current Trends in Translation Teaching and Learning E (2025).
- Kaleidoscopic Translation Studies, graduate translation conference, Kent State University, Ohio, USA (2025)
- Trace and Transformation, graduate student conference on translation studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (2024)
- Trajectories of Translation and Interpreting Studies: Between the Digital and the Post-National, ATISA XI conference, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA (2024)
- KFLC: The Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA (2023)
- 80th Annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, USA (2023)
- Translation Studies: Challenges, Innovations, and Pedagogy, TRIP graduate student conference, Binghamton University, Vestal, New York, USA (2023)
- Translation, Ideology, Ethics: Response and Credibility, international conference, Vilnius University, Lithuania (2022)
- Platinum Teaching Recognition Award, Kent State University (2025)
- Gold Teaching Recognition Award, Kent State University (2025)
- Graduate Student Senate (GSS) Research Award, Kent State University (2025)
- Graduate Student Orientation (GSO) Teaching Fellowship Award, Kent State University (2022)
- Phi Sigma Iota Award for Excellence in Language and Scholarship, Kent State University (2022)
- Student Achiever Award and Certificate of Recognition, 16th Kent Cloth Celebration, Bridgewater State University (2015)