Senior Lecturer in Arabic Popular Literature and Culture
Member
Member
- Name:
- Dr Marlé Hammond
- Email address:
- mh93@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4518
- Address:
- SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
- Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 438
- Academic Support Hours:
- Monday and Wednesday, 12-1pm
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
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
Hammond, Marle (2020) The Tale of al-Barrāq Son of Rawḥān and Laylā the Chaste: A Bilingual Edition and Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hammond, Marle (2018) A Dictionary of Arabic Literary Terms and Devices. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hammond, Marle (2010) Beyond Elegy: Classical Arabic Women's Poetry in Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hammond, Marle (2019) 'Pagan or Muslim? “Structures of Feeling” and Religious Ambiguity in al-Khansāʾ'. Middle Eastern Literatures, (22) 1, pp 36-57.
Hammond, Marle (2018) '“The Language of the Eyes”: Speech Acts and the Gaze in a Monologue by Badīˁah Maṣābnī'. Journal of Arabic Literature, (49) 1-2, pp 104-124.
Hammond, Marle (2012) 'The Morphing of a Folktale: Sallama and the Priest'. Middle Eastern Literatures, (15) 2, pp 113-136.
Hammond, Marle (2003) 'He Said, “She Said”: Narrations of Women’s Verse in Classical Arabic Literature—A Case Study: Nazhūn’s Hijāˀ of Abū Bakr al-Makhzūmī'. Middle Eastern Literatures, (6) 1, pp 3-18.
Hammond, Marle (2000) 'Subsuming the Feminine Other: Gender and Narration in Idwār al-Kharrāṭ’s Yā Banāt Iskandariyya'. Journal of Arabic Literature, (31) 1, pp 38-58.
Talib, Adam and Hammond, Marle and Schippers, Arie, (eds.), (2014) The Rude, the Bad and the Bawdy: Essays in honour of Professor Geert Jan van Gelder. Cambridge: Gibb Memorial Trust.
Hammond, Marle, (ed.), (2014) Arabic Poems. London: Everyman's Library. (Pocket Poets).
van Gelder, Geert Jan and Hammond, Marle, (eds.), (2009) Takhyil: the Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetics. [Oxford]: E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust.
Hammond, Marle and Sajdi, Dana, (eds.), (2008) Transforming Loss into Beauty: Essays on Arabic Literature and Culture in Honor of Magda Al-Nowaihi. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press.
Hammond, Marle (2020) 'The Kiss in Egyptian Film Language of the 1940s'. In: Lagrange, Frédéric and Savina, Claire, (eds.), Les Mots du désir : La langue de l’érotisme arabe et sa traduction. Marseilles: Diacritiques Éditions.
Hammond, Marle (2020) 'Al-Khansa': Representing the First-Person Feminine'. In: Seigneurie, Ken and Chism, Christine, (eds.), A Companion to World Literature, Volume 2: 601 CE to 1450. Hoboken, NJ, USA: WILEY Blackwell, pp 1059-1071.
Hammond, Marle (2014) 'The Foul-Mouthed Faḥla: Obscenity and Amplification in Early Women's Invective'. In: Talib, Adam and Hammond, Marle 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 (2013) ''If only al-Barraq could see': Violence and Voyeurism in an Early Modern Reformulation of the Pre-Islamic Call to Arms'. In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, pp 215-240.
Hammond, Marle (2009) 'From Phantasia to Paronomasia: Image-Evocation and the Double Entendre in Khalil Hawi's 'The Mariner and the Dervish''. In: van Gelder, Geert Jan and Hammond, Marle, (eds.), Takhyil: the Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetics. [Oxford]: E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust, pp 274-286.
Hammond, Marle (2008) 'Qasida, Marthiya and Différance'. In: Hammond, Marle 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.
Hammond, Marle (2006) 'He Desires Her? Situating Nazhūn’s muwashshaḥa in an androgynous aesthetic of courtly love'. 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.
Hammond, Marle (2003) 'Literature, 9th to 15th Century'. In: Joseph, Suad and Najmabadi, Afsaneh and Peteet, Julie and Shami, Seteney and Siapno, Jacqueline and Smith, Jane I., (eds.), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, vol. 1: Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources. Leiden: Brill, pp 42-50.
Hammond, Marle (2016) 'Review: The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature by Remke Kruk. London: I.B. Tauris, 2014.'. Journal of the American Oriental Society, (136) 2, pp 464-466.
Hammond, Marle (2015) 'Sonja Mejcher-Atassi. Reading Across Modern Arabic Literature and Art'. Middle Eastern Literatures, (18) 1, pp 102-103.
Hammond, Marle (2013) 'Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Literature, Culture,and Empire, by Deborah Starr'. Comparative Literature Studies, (50) 2, pp 375-378.
Hammond, Marle (2012) 'Great Ancestors: Women Claiming Rights in Muslim Contexts, by Farida Shaheed with Aisha Lee Shaheed'. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, (75) 3, pp 587-588.
Hammond, Marle (2010) 'Review of Julia Bray ed., Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam: Muslim Horizons'. Speculum, (85) 1, pp 119-121.
Hammond, Marle (2009) 'Review of Radwa Ashour et al (eds.), Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999'. Middle Eastern Studies, (45) 5, pp 851-855.
Hammond, Marle (2001) 'Review of 'The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village', by Susan Slyomovics'. Journal of Palestine Studies, (31) 1, pp 86-87.
Hammond, Marle (2001) 'Review of 'Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East', ed. Sherifa Zuhur'. Journal of Palestine Studies, (30) 4, pp 106-107.
Hammond, Marle (2008) 'Nasīb ˁArīḍa'.
Hammond, Marle (2007) 'Ṣalāḥ ˁAbd al-Ṣabūr'.
Hammond, Marle (2007) 'ˁAbbās Maḥmūd al-ˁAqqād'.
Hammond, Marle (2006) 'Ḥafṣa Bint al-Ḥājj'.
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