Dr. Risse has taught cultural studies, literature and pedagogy for 21 years on the Arabian Peninsula at the American University of Sharjah (UAE), the University of Sharjah-Woman’s (UAE) and Dhofar University (Oman). Her research areas are comparative literature, Dhofari cultures and intercultural communication. Her books are Community and Autonomy in Southern Oman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Foodways in Southern Oman (Routledge, 2021) and Houseways in Southern Oman (Routledge, 2023). Her work has been published in the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, Pedagogy, Journeys: The International Journal of Travel & Travel Writing, Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, TESOL Arabia’s Perspective, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Washington Post. She has published chapters in Khadija bint Alawi al-Thahab’s My Grandmother’s Stories: Folk Tales from Dhofar, Literature Teaching in EFL/ESL: New Perspectives, Focusing on EFL Reading: Theory and Practice, Emanations, and Travel Culture (Praeger). She has presented at the MESA, MLA, ACLA, IASA, HERA and RGS annual conferences as well as the Maritime Exploration Conference at National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and the Joint Seminar of The Folklore Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute at the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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