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Dr. Marielle Risse
Biography
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Research on Oman
Foodways and Society in Southern Oman
Food Practices in Southern Oman – Overview and Images – 2019
Short Essays on Aspects of Foodways in Dhofar, Oman – What to Eat Where When and How
Selected References for Research on Foodways and Society in Dhofar, Oman
Research on Travelers and Tourists in Dhofar
Accounts from the Journeys of the ‘Palinurus’ – 2018
Wilfred Thesiger as Traveler and Anthropologist – 2013
Tourism in the Dhofar Region of Oman – 2009
Travel Writing, Anthropology and Fiction & the Culture of Southern Arabia – 2009
“Treachery in the Kitchen”: Traveling Foreign, Eating Familiar – 2008
Research on Aspects of Dhofari Cultures
Reflections/ Research on Teaching Cultural Studies and Literature
Excerpts from “Issues of Autonomy in Southern Oman” – 2017
Generosity, Gift-Giving, and Gift-Avoiding in Southern Oman – 2015
Cultural Refraction: Using Travel Writing, Anthropology and Fiction to Understand the Culture of Southern Arabia – 2009
The Conception of Self-Respect in Southern Oman – 2013
Understanding the Impact of Culture on the TESOL Classroom – 2011
Research on Dhofari Folk and Fairy Tales
An Ethnographic Discussion of Folk Tales from Southern Oman – 2019
“Reader’s Guide” for the English version of Khadija bint Alawi al-Thahab’s My Grandmother’s Stories: Folk Tales from Dhofar – 2012
Bibliography of Works Consulted for Research on Dhofar, Oman
Annotated Bibliography – Texts Pertaining to Dhofar, Oman
Selected Books on Dhofar in Arabic
Teaching Literature
Reflections/ Research on Teaching Cultural Studies and Literature
Teaching “Aurora Leigh” in Oman – 2014
“Cloistered Virtue”: Choosing Literary Texts in a ME University – 2013
Teaching Middle Eastern and Western Literature in Tandem
Using Local Voices in ME Literature Classrooms – 2012
John Clare Looks Good in a Dishdash: Linking John Clare to Middle Eastern Poetry – 2011
Western/ Middle Eastern Conceptions of “Nature” – 2009
Marlowe in Salalah: Making English Poetry Relevant – 2008
Uncertainty while Teaching Literature in the Middle East – 2007
Al Hakim’s Princess Sunshine – 2007
Suggestions for Literature Teachers in the Middle East
Teaching Paired Literary Texts
Suggested Literature Texts – 2018
Writing Prompts to Facilitate Creativity – 2016
Poems – “Finding Poems for my Students” by Mohja Kahf
Poems – “Locals” by James Lasdun
Poems – “Small Comfort” by Katha Pollitt
Poems – “God Says Yes To Me” by Kaylin Haught
Poems – “Did I Miss Anything?” by Tom Wayman
Poems – “Football” by Louis Jenkin
Essays
Intercultural Exchanges
To Learn Arabic, You Have to Walk the Walk – 2012
Throwing Children in the Street: Culture Shock Omani Style
Bringing Theory Home in Oman – 2011
Travel Writing
The Importance of Not Being Earnest When Writing Travel Literature – 2010
“Treachery in the Kitchen”: Traveling Foreign, Eating Familiar – Dr. Traci Kelly and Dr. Marielle Risse – 2008
Back from Ubar or What to Read if You Insist on Staying Home – 2004
Your Zimbabwe Stories – 2012
Living Expat
Living Expat on the Arabian Peninsula – 2018
Reading Alone: E-Readers Arrive in a Small Town in the Middle East – 2014
Perfume: The Great Healer – 2011
The Case of the Missing Mango – 2011
Literature and Ethnography
Differences/ Hierarchies
Images
Photographs of Dhofar, Oman by S. B.
Frankincense in Dhofar, Oman
New curfew – New (good) graphics
Images about Keeping Safe in Oman: Coivd-19 and Rain Storm
A Sense of Place – Everyday Images of Food and Plants in Dhofar
A Sense of Place – Everyday Images of Animals and Landscapes in Dhofar
Images Celebrating Sultan Qaboos, National Day and Omani Women’ Day
Photographs – Hussein BaOmar
Images of Dhofar – Various Photographers
Photos of Dhofar – Historical
Images of Oman – unknown photographers
Musing
Aunt Alice
Short Essays on Foodways
Common Food Terms in Dhofar, Oman (updated)
A Sense of Place – Everyday Images of Food and Plants in Dhofar
Food Research/ Corona Virus in Oman
Corona, Curfew and Dinner (and good graphics)
Selected Bibliography: Animals, Birds and Fish in Southern Oman
Food Photos by Salwa Hubais
May Bsisu’s The Arab Table – Reading Recipes for Cultural Understandings
Food Here and There/ Missing Food
Cognitive Dissonance and Food Identification
Cooking in a Chair?!? – Abductive Reasoning and Foodways in Khareef
‘Little c’ Culture: Flooded Roads and Cheese Triangles
Food Tastes Better in the Rain – Khareef in Salalah
Foodways Images – Humor, Disseminating Information, and the Instagram Food/ Money Connection
Ramadan and Foodways – Images of food in connection to greetings and good behavior, Vimto and selling food
Food Terminology: Life is not Life, Curry is not Curry, Chutney is not Chutney
Food Perceptions – Honey
Food Often Served at Weddings in Dhofar
Breakfast is ready!
Lunch is ready!
Snack is ready!
quote on entertaining from Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford (1853)
“Arabic Coffee,” a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye
Updates
I am pleased to announce that I have an article accepted in the journal “Arabian Humanities”
I am pleased to announce that my article “An Ethnographic Discussion of Fairy Tales and Folktales from Southern Oman” has been published in _Fabula_
Copies of Jokha Al Harthi’s prize winning book on display in Switzerland!
I am happy to announce that my article “مناقشة إثنوغرافية للحكايات الشعبية من جنوب عمان” [An Ethnographic Discussion of Folk Tales from Southern Oman] has been published in the journal Al Sha’ar (Alaan Publishers, Amman).
Foodways and Society presentation – BRISMES 2019
Keye Tersmette and I will be presenting “Ghurba at Home – Views from Oman” at the ‘Arab World as Ghurba: Citizenship, Identity and Belonging in Literature and Popular Culture’; conference at the University of Warwick, 21 June 2019
My article “An Ethnographic Discussion of Fairy Tales and Folktales from Southern Oman” will be published in Fabula
My short collection of essays “Living Expat” will be published in the forthcoming Emanations 7
“Accounts from the Journeys of the Brig ‘Palinurus’ along the Dhofar Coast Oman in the mid-1800s” – presentation at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Sept. 15, 2018
“I Came to You for Good”: An Ethnographic Discussion of Folk Tales from Southern Oman. RAI, London, October 26, 2017
Bibliographies: Research on Dhofar, Food & Anthropology, and Teaching Literature
Writers in Oman
An excellent article – “Women in Omani Arts: From Traditional Folk Tales to Contemporary Art” by Nada Al-Ajmi
Two Articles about Omani Writers
Fighting Corona in Oman – Short Essays and Government Graphics
New curfew – New (good) graphics
Corona, Curfew and Dinner (and good graphics)
Images about Keeping Safe in Oman: Coivd-19 and Rain Storm
Safety in Difficult Times
Food Research/ Corona Virus in Oman
Let’s stay home and stay safe: the Corona virus in Oman
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