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Marielle Risse
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Occupation
Independent Scholar
Contact
195 Binney Street
Cambridge MA 02142
United States
ABOUT
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
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Comparative
Cultural Studies
Education
Ethnography
Foreign Relations
Gulf Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
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
Abstracts
“I Do Not Need the Night”: The Gibali Conception of Self-Respect in Southern Oman “Why Would I Hurt a Woman?”: Respectful/ Respecting Women in the Southern Oman Private Lives in Public Spaces: Perceptions of Space-Usage in Southern Oman Conducting Research on the Arabian Peninsula: Creating Effective Interactions