Dr. Marielle Risse teaches literature, education and cultural studies at Dhofar University in Salalah, Oman. Her areas of research are Omani culture/ history, connecting Middle Eastern and Western writers in literature classrooms and intercultural communication/ competence. She is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
She has published Community and Autonomy in Southern Oman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) and Foodways in Southern Oman (Routledge, 2021).
Her webpage is: https://mariellerisse.com
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Education
Ethnography
Foreign Relations
Gulf Studies
History Of Architecture
Language Acquisition
Middle East/Near East Studies
Sociolinguistics
Geographic Areas of Interest
Oman
Arabian Peninsula
Yemen
UAE
Specialties
Cross-cultural Communication
Teaching Western And/or Middle Eastern Literature
Dhofar/ Oman
Education
PhD
| 1996
| English
| UND
MA
| 1992
| Education
| Univ MD - College Park
BA
| 1988
| German Lit and Pol Science
| Univ WI - Madison
