Dr Marlé Hammond

Key information

- Roles
- Near and Middle East Section Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture
- Department
- Centre for Creative Industries, Media and Screen Studies & Near and Middle East Section
- Qualifications
- BA, MA, Mphil, PhD (Columbia)
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office
- 419
- Email address
- mh93@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone number
- 020 7898 4518
- Support hours
-
Monday 3:00pm-4:00pm, Tuesday 1:00pm-2:00pm
Biography
Marlé Hammond is a Senior 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).
Current 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'. Details may be found on the project website:Layla the Chaste
Research interests
Classical and Modern Arabic Literature and Poetics; Egyptian and Arabic Cinemas; Women's Writing; Folkloric Narrative.
Current 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'. Details may be found on the project website:Layla the Chaste
PhD Supervision
Name | Title |
---|---|
Dalal S Al-Baroud | Reflections on the Dialogue with the Divine: A Comparative Study of Muslim and Christian Sources |
Mr Hasan Al-Khoee | The Evolution of Arabic Public Oratory in the Early Muslim Period [1st-3rd/7th-9th centuries] |
Hebah Hasan O Albiti | Social Change through Power of Imagination in Arabic Theatre: How the Raḥbānī Brothers’ Works Empowered their Audiences |
Ms Taroob Boulos | Breaking the Silence: Pain, Torture, Resistance and Bearing Witness in the Narratives of Palestinian War Prisoners and Detainees (1967 to 2015) |
Faizul Redhwan Karim | Gender Relations in the Qur'ān |
Dr Annie Webster | Stories of Creative Destruction in post-2003 Iraqi Fiction |
Publications
Contact Marlé
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