That feeling when your final paper from your FWS turns into a published piece of writing… A feeling now known to Ashley Koca, A&S freshman and soon-to-declare History of Art major, who also intends to minor in Classical Civilization and Near Eastern Studies. She’s eyeing an application to the College Scholar program in the fall, where she will be able to more seamlessly meld her diverse interests. “I was really inspired by the intentionality of ornamental program of the Alhambra,” Ashley says,“ and love that art historical analysis is innately interdisciplinary—I can use architecture as a medium to discuss history, religion, philosophy, really anything.” She has a second article in the pipelines—“Electra and Clytemnestra: Foils in the Liminal Realm,” an investigation into narrative reliefs rendered in a precociously naturalistic style on an archaic bronze shield housed in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna—soon to appear in the University of Pennsylvania’s Classical Undergraduate journal Discentes.
Ashley Koca '25 published her essay, Stars and the Supersensory: Nasrid Sufism and the Application of the Philosophy of Ibn al-Khatib in the Alhambra’s Architecture written in her history of art freshman writing seminar. It was published in the Fenjan journal, the University of Pennsylvania's Undergraduate journal for Near Eastern Studies.
Read Ashley’s essay on the Alhambra here (page 27)
