Dr. Marielle Risse lives in Cambridge, MA. She taught on the Arabian Peninsula for 21 years in the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Her teaching areas are literature, literature in translation, comparative literature, cultural studies and pedagogy. Her research areas are Dhofari cultures/ history, comparative literature and intercultural communication.
She has published three books: Houseways in Southern Oman (Routledge, 2023), Foodways in Southern Oman (Routledge, 2021) and Community and Autonomy in Southern Oman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). She has also published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters in the fields of anthropology, architecture/ design, cross-cultural communication, effective teaching, fishing, food studies, literature, pedagogy, space usage and travel writing.
She grew up in a planned community (Columbia, MD) and has always been interested in the interdependence of culture and geography. In addition to the United States and the Arabian Peninsula, she has also lived in Bonn, Germany and Nicosia, Cyprus.
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