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.
Hammond, Marle (2020). In: Lagrange, Frédéric, (eds.) and Savina, Claire, (eds.), Les Mots du désir : La langue de l’érotisme arabe et sa traduction. Marseilles: Diacritiques Éditions
Al-Khansa': Representing the First-Person Feminine
Hammond, Marle (2020). In: Seigneurie, Ken, (eds.) and Chism, Christine, (eds.), A Companion to World Literature, Volume 2: 601 CE to 1450. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley, pp 1059-1071
The Foul-Mouthed Faḥla: Obscenity and Amplification in Early Women's Invective
Hammond, Marle (2014). In: Talib, Adam, (eds.), Hammond, Marle, (eds.) and Schippers, Arie, (eds.), The Rude, the Bad and the Bawdy: Essays in honour of Professor Geert Jan van Gelder. Cambridge: Gibb Memorial Trust, pp 254-265
Hammond, Marle (2008). In: Hammond, Marle, (eds.) 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
He Desires Her? Situating Nazhūn’s muwashshaḥa in an androgynous aesthetic of courtly love
Hammond, Marle (2006). In: Emery, Ed, (ed.), Muwashshaḥ: Proceedings of the International Conference on Arabic and Hebrew Strophic Poetry and its Romance Parallels. London: RN Books, pp 141-156
Breaking the Silence: Pain, Torture, Resistance and Bearing Witness in the writings of Palestinian Prisoners of War and Administrative Detainees (1967 2004)
Hammond, Marle (2023). The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle AgesThe Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages
