School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

Dr Marlé Hammond

Key information

Roles
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Reader in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture Member Member
Qualifications
BA, MA, Mphil, PhD (Columbia)
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
Faizul Redhwan Karim Gender Relations in the Qur'ān
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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