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Dr. Marielle Risse

  • Dr. Marielle Risse
    • Biography
    • CV
    • Contact
  • Selected Research on Oman
    • Generosity, Gift-Giving, and Gift-Avoiding in Southern Oman – 2015
    • The Conception of Self-Respect in Southern Oman – 2013
    • Wilfred Thesiger as Traveler and Anthropologist – 2013
    • Tourism in the Dhofar Region of Oman – 2009
    • Using Travel Writing, Anthropology and Fiction to Understand the Culture of Southern Arabia – 2009
    • Photos – unknown photographer
  • Teaching Literature
    • Teaching “Aurora Leigh” in Oman – 2014
    • “Cloistered Virtue”: Choosing Literary Texts in a ME University – 2013
    • Using Local Voices in ME Literature Classrooms – 2012
    • Western/ Middle Eastern Conceptions of “Nature” – 2009
    • Al Hakim’s Princess Sunshine – 2007
    • Students’ Reactions to English Poetry – 2008
    • Uncertainty while Teaching Literature in the Middle East – 2007
    • Suggested Literature Texts – 2018
    • Writing Prompts to Facilitate Creativity – 2016
    • Favorite Poems
      • 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
    • Reading Alone: E-Readers Arrive in a Small Town in the Middle East – 2014
    • The Importance of Not Being Earnest – 2010
    • “Treachery in the Kitchen”: Traveling Foreign, Eating Familiar – 2008
    • Back from Ubar or What to Read if You Insist on Staying Home – 2004
    • Perfume: The Great Healer – 2011
    • The Case of the Missing Mango – 2011
  • Musing

Favorite Poems

Finding Poems for my Students – Mohja Kahf

Locals – James Lasdun

Small Comfort – Katha Pollitt

God Says Yes To Me – Kaylin Haught

Did I Miss Anything? – Tom Wayman

Football – Louis Jenkins

 

Mary Oliver

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/mary-oliver

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/mary-oliver

http://maryoliver.beacon.org/

Come From Away

Dr. Marielle Risse

Recent Posts

  • My short collection of essays “Living Expat” will be published in the forthcoming Emanations 7
  • Hurricane Mekunu
  • The patience and tolerance to live harmoniously in an unfamiliar culture; the fortitude to be content with less than comfortable circumstances for prolonged periods; an understanding of and sympathy with a foreign history and religion; a willingness to learn a new language; the flexibility, imagination and humility necessary to climb into the head of people who live by a very different set of assumptions; none of these are found automatically in our modern developed Euro-Atlantic culture. (Gardiner, In the Service of the Sultan, 174)
  • photo by Hussein BaOmar
  • I will be presenting at the Maritime Exploration and Memory Conference, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England – Sept. 2018

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Photographs by Hussein BaOmar

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