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)
