Dr Marlé Hammond
BA, MA, Mphil, PhD (Columbia)
Overview
Department of the Languages and Cultures of Near and Middle East
Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture
Centre for Palestine Studies (CPS)
Member
London Middle East Institute (LMEI)
Member
- Name:
- Dr Marlé Hammond
- Email address:
- mh93@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4518
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 438
- Office Hours:
- Tuesdays 13:00-14:00/Thursdays 12:00-13:00
Biography
Marlé Hammond is a Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature & Culture. Prior to her arrival at SOAS in August 2010, she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford University (2007-2010) and a Research Centre Fellowship in the Programme of Arabic Poetry and Comparative Poetics at St. John’s College, Oxford (2002-2006).
Teaching
Courses Taught
- Arabic Cinema (1)
- Arabic Cinema (ii)
- Cinemas of the Middle East and North Africa
- Film and Society in the Middle East
- Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature
PhD Students supervised
- Alessandro Columbu, Depicting Syria: the short stories of Zakariyya Tamir
- Irene Fernandez Ramos, Performing immobility: The individual-collective body and the representation of oppressed identities in Palestinian Theatre from the 70s to the present
- Siba Aldabbagh, Word and Image in Visual Art and Poetry from the Arab World
Research
Classical and Modern Arabic Literature and Poetics; Egyptian and Arabic Cinemas; Women's Writing; Folkloric Narrative
Publications
Authored Books
Hammond, Marle (2010) Beyond Elegy: Classical Arabic Women's Poetry in Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs)
Edited Books
van Gelder, Geert Jan and Hammond, Marle, eds. (2009) Takhyil: the Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetics. [Oxford]: E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust.
Hammond, Marle and Sajdi, Dana, eds. (2008) Transforming Loss into Beauty: Essays on Arabic Literature and Culture in Honor of Magda Al-Nowaihi. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press.
Book Chapters
Hammond, Marle (2009) 'From Phantasia to Paronomasia: Image-Evocation and the Double Entendre in Khalil Hawi's 'The Mariner and the Dervish'.' In: van Gelder, Geert Jan and Hammond, Marle, (eds.), Takhyil: the Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetics. [Oxford]: E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, pp. 274-286.
Hammond, Marle (2008) 'Qasida, Marthiya and Différance.' In: Hammond, Marle and Sajdi, Dana, (eds.), Transforming Loss into Beauty: Essays on Arabic Literature and Culture in Honor of Magda Al-Nowaihi. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, pp. 142-184.
Hammond, Marle (2006) 'He Desires Her? Situating Nazhūn’s muwashshaḥa in an androgynous aesthetic of courtly love.' In: Emery, Ed, (ed.), Muwashshaḥ: Proceedings of the International Conference on Arabic and Hebrew Strophic Poetry and its Romance Parallels. RN Books, pp. 141-156.
Hammond, Marle (2003) 'Literature, 9th to 15th Century.' In: Joseph, Suad and Najmabadi, Afsaneh and Peteet, Julie and Shami, Seteney and Siapno, Jacqueline and Smith, Jane I., (eds.), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, vol. 1: Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources. Leiden: Brill, pp. 42-50.
Articles
Hammond, Marle (2012) 'The Morphing of a Folktale: Sallama and the Priest.' Middle Eastern Literatures, 15 (2). pp. 113-136.
Hammond, Marle (2003) 'He Said, “She Said”: Narrations of Women’s Verse in Classical Arabic Literature—A Case Study: Nazhūn’s Hijāˀ of Abū Bakr al-Makhzūmī.' Middle Eastern Literatures, 6 (1). pp. 3-18.
Hammond, Marle (2000) 'Subsuming the Feminine Other: Gender and Narration in Idwār al-Kharrāṭ’s Yā Banāt Iskandariyya.' Journal of Arabic Literature, 31 (1). pp. 38-58.
Book Reviews
Hammond, Marle (2010) 'Review of Julia Bray ed., Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam: Muslim Horizons.' Speculum, 85 (1). pp. 119-121.
Hammond, Marle (2009) 'Review of Radwa Ashour et al (eds.), Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999.' Middle Eastern Studies, 45 (5). pp. 851-855.
Hammond, Marle (2001) 'Review of 'The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village', by Susan Slyomovics.' Journal of Palestine Studies, 31 (1). pp. 86-87.
Hammond, Marle (2001) 'Review of 'Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East', ed. Sherifa Zuhur.' Journal of Palestine Studies, 30 (4). pp. 106-107.
Other
Hammond, Marle (2008) 'Nasīb ˁArīḍa.' In: Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd ed. pp. 125-126.
Hammond, Marle (2007) 'Ṣalāḥ ˁAbd al-Ṣabūr.' In: Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd ed. pp. 20-21.
Hammond, Marle (2007) 'ˁAbbās Maḥmūd al-ˁAqqād.' In: Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd ed. pp. 134-136.
Hammond, Marle (2006) 'Ḥafṣa Bint al-Ḥājj.' In: Medieval Islamic Civilaztion: an encyclopedia. Vol.1. p. 308.
