School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics,
Department of Film, Performance and Cultural Studies
& Department of Literature and Translation
Dr Marlé Hammond
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Reader in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture Member Member
- Department
- School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Department of Film, Performance and Cultural Studies & Department of Literature and Translation
- Qualifications
- BA, MA, Mphil, PhD (Columbia)
- Subject
- Literature and translation
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office
- 419
- Email address
- mh93@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone number
- 020 7898 4518
Biography
Marlé Hammond is a Reader in Arabic Popular Literature and 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).
Former holder of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2017-2018) for a research project entitled 'From Fiction to Fact: the Curious Evolution of an Arabic Epic'.
Research interests
Classical and Modern Arabic Literature and Poetics; Egyptian and Arabic Cinemas; Women's Writing; Folkloric Narrative.
PhD Supervision
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Hossein Bastani | The Changes Undergone in the Political Discourse of Ali Khamenei |
| Mandar Marathe | The BALAGHA Score: A Digital Humanities Approach to Assessing Arabic Rhetoric |
| Dr Annie Webster | Stories of Creative Destruction in post-2003 Iraqi Fiction |
Publications
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