SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2023) Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom. London: Verso.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2021) The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Edinburgh historical studies of Iran and the Persian world)

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus. New Haven: Yale University Press. (Eurasia past and present)

Book Chapters

Tahmasebian, Kayvan and Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2023) 'The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran.' In: Reynolds, Matthew, (ed.), Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel across Languages. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, pp. 451-491.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2019) 'Naimy and the Russian Literary Canon.' In: Rihani, May A. and Dravis, Michael W., (eds.), Reshaping the Landscapes of Arab Thought: The Legacies of Kahlil Gibran, Ameen Rihani & Mikhail Naimy. College Park, MD: University of Maryland. The Khalil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace, pp. 125-136.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) 'The Abrek in Soviet Chechen Literature.' In: Gould, Rebecca Ruth, (ed.), Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 33-91. (Eurasia past and present)

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) 'The Caucasus as Region, Literature as Method.' In: Gould, Rebecca Ruth, (ed.), Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 1-32. (Eurasia past and present)

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) 'The Georgian Poetics of Insurgency.' In: Gould, Rebecca Ruth, (ed.), Writers and Rebels. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 158-201. (Eurasia past and present)

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) 'Regulating Rebellion: Miracles, Insurgency, and Daghestani Modernity.' In: Gould, Rebecca Ruth, (ed.), Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 92-157. (Eurasia past and present)

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) 'Transgression as Sanctity?' In: Gould, Rebecca Ruth, (ed.), Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 231-248. (Eurasia past and present)

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) 'Violence as Recognition, Recognition as Violence.' In: Gould, Rebecca Ruth, (ed.), Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 202-230. (Eurasia past and present)

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2012) 'Imam Shamil (1797-1871).' In: Norris, Stephen M. and Sunderland, Willard, (eds.), Russia’s People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, pp. 117-127.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2008) 'Language Dreamers: Race and the Politics of Etymology in the Caucasus.' In: Grant, Bruce and Yalcin-Heckmann, Lale, (eds.), Caucasus paradigms : anthropologies, histories and the making of a world area. Münster: Lit Verlag, pp. 143-166. (Halle studies in the anthropology of Eurasia, v. 13)

Journal Article

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2023) 'Manuscripts don't burn.' Index on Censorship, 52 (2). pp. 88-92.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2022) 'Afterword to Persianate Pasts, National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century.' Iranian Studies, 55 (3).

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2022) 'Legal Form and Legal Legitimacy: The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism as a Case Study in Censored Speech.' Law, Culture and the Humanities, 18 (1). pp. 153-186.

Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan and Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2021) 'The Temporality of Interlinear Translation.' Representations, 155 (1). pp. 1-28.

Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan and Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2021) 'Ajnabi, Or the Xenological Uncanny in Iranian Modernism.' New Literary History, 52 (1). pp. 145-168.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2019) 'Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in Post-9/11 America.' Journal of American Studies, 53 (1). pp. 146-171.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2019) 'The Aesthetic Terrain of Settler Colonialism: Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov’s Natives.' Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55 (1). pp. 48-65.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2018) 'Telling the Story of Literature from Inside Out: The Methods and Tools of Non-European Poetics.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 38 (1). pp. 170-180.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2018) 'Memorializing Akhundzadeh: Contradictory Cosmopolitanism and Post-Soviet Narcissism in Old Tbilisi.' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 20 (4). pp. 488-509.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth and Shikhaliev, S. (2017) 'Beyond the Taqlīd/Ijtihād Dichotomy: Daghestani Legal Thought under Russian Rule.' Islamic Law and Society, 24 (1-2). pp. 142-169.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) 'The Persian translation of Arabic aesthetics: Rādūyān's rhetorical renaissance.' Rhetorica: Journal of the History of Rhetoric, 34 (4). pp. 339-371.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) 'Finding Bazorkin in the Caucasus: A Journey from Anthropology to Literature.' Anthropology and Humanism, 41 (1). pp. 86-101.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) 'Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqāni's Christian Qasida and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān.' Journal of Persianate Studies, 9 (1). pp. 19-44.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) 'The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology.' Intellectual History Review, 26 (2). pp. 171-184.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) 'Vested Reading: Writing the Self through Ethan Frome.' Life Writing, 13 (4). pp. 415-430.

Tabidze, Titsian and Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2015) 'Tbilisi Evening.' Prairie Schooner, 89 (1). pp. 37-38.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2015) 'The much-maligned panegyric: Toward a political poetics of premodern literary form.' Comparative Literature Studies, 52 (2). pp. 254-288.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2015) 'The geographies of 'Ajam: The circulation of Persian poetry from South Asia to the Caucasus.' The Medieval History Journal, 18 (1). pp. 87-119.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2015) 'Ijtiha¯d against Madhhab: Legal hybridity and the meanings of modernity in early modern Daghestan.' Comparative Studies in Society and History, 57 (1). pp. 35-66.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2015) 'Philology’s Contingent Genealogies.' Philology, 1 (1). pp. 53-66.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2015) 'Teaching Guide for "The Political Cosmology of Prison Poetics".' Literature Compass, 12 (1). pp. 45-46.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2014) 'Engendering Critique: Postnational Feminism in Postcolonial Syria.' WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 42 (3-4). pp. 213-233.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2014) 'Form without a home: On translating the indo-Persian Radif.' Translation Review, 90 (1). pp. 15-28.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2014) 'Hijab as commodity form: Veiling, unveiling, and misveiling in contemporary Iran.' Feminist Theory, 15 (3). pp. 221-240.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2014) 'Persian Autobiography Syllabus.' SSRN Electronic Journal.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2014) 'Conservative in form, revolutionary in content: Rethinking world literary canons in an age of globalization.' Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 41 (3). pp. 270-286.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2014) 'Sumud: The Palestinian Art of Existence.' World Policy Journal, 31 (3). pp. 99-106.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2014) 'The Poetics from Athens to al-Andalus: Ibn Rushd’s Grounds for Comparison.' Modern Philology, 112 (1). pp. 1-24.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2014) 'The lonely hero and chechen modernity: Interpreting the story of Gekha the Abrek.' Journal of Folklore Research, 51 (2). pp. 199-222.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2014) 'The Political Cosmology of Prison Poetics: Khāqānī of Shirwān on Muslim–Christian Difference.' Literature Compass, 11 (7). pp. 496-515.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2014) 'Aleksandre Qazbegi's mountaineer prosaics: The anticolonial vernacular on Georgian-Chechen borderlands.' Ab Imperio, 2014 (1). pp. 361-390.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2014) 'Antiquarianism as genealogy: Arnaldo Momigliano's method.' History and Theory, 53 (2). pp. 212-233.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2014) 'The Materiality of Resistance: Israel’s Apartheid Wall in an Age of Globalization.' Social Text, 32 (1). pp. 1-21.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2014) 'Aaron Swartz's legacy.' Academe, 100 (1). pp. 19-23.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2013) 'Jim Crow in the Soviet Union.' Callaloo, 36 (1). pp. 125-141.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2013) 'To Boycott or Not? A Moral Conundrum.' Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 25 (4). pp. 584-589.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2013) 'Laws, exceptions, norms: Kierkegaard, Schmitt, and Benjamin on the exception.' Telos, 2013 (162). pp. 77-96.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2013) 'Inimitability versus translatability: The structure of literary meaning in Arabo-Persian poetics.' Translator, 19 (1). pp. 81-104.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2013) 'The Death of Caucasus Philology: Towards a Discipline Beyond Areal Divides.' Iran and the Caucasus, 17 (3). pp. 275-293.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2013) 'Topographies of anticolonialism: The ecopoetical sublime in the Caucasus from Tolstoy to Mamakaev.' Comparative Literature Studies, 50 (1). pp. 87-107.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2012) 'Philology, education, democracy.' Journal of Aesthetic Education, 46 (4). pp. 57-69.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2012) 'The sublimity of Charles Bovary.' Literary Imagination, 14 (3). pp. 366-372.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2012) 'Adam Bede's dutch realism and the novelist's point of view.' Philosophy and Literature, 36 (2). pp. 404-423.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2012) 'World literature as a communal apartment: Semyon lipkin's ethics of translational difference.' Translation and Literature, 21 (3). pp. 402-421.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2012) 'Allegory and the critique of sovereignty: Ismail Kadare's political theologies.' Studies in the Novel, 44 (2). pp. 208-230.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2012) 'Prisons before modernity: Incarceration in the medieval Indo-Mediterranean.' Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean, 24 (2). pp. 179-197.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2012) 'Leaving the house of memory: Post-Soviet traces of deportation memory.' Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, 45 (2). pp. 149-164.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2012) 'Reading Ruins against the Grain: Istanbul, Derbent, Postcoloniality.' Culture, Theory and Critique, 53 (1). pp. 19-36.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2012) 'Sergei Esenin's Impressions from the Caucasus.' Xavier Review, 32 (1-2). pp. 97-99.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2011) 'Dialectics of filiation and affiliation: Toma Baliauri's Testament and the Archive of Anticolonialism.' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 13 (4). pp. 640-650.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2011) 'Modernity, Madness, Disenchantment: Don Quixote's Hunger.' symplokē, 19 (1-2). pp. 35-53.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2011) 'How Gulbadan Remembered: The 'Book of Humāyūn' as an Act of Representation.' Early Modern Women, 6. pp. 187-193.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2011) 'Secularism and Belief in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge.' Journal of Islamic Studies, 22 (3). pp. 339-373.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2011) 'Mahsat of Ganja's wandering quatrains: Translator's introduction.' Literary Imagination, 13 (2). pp. 225-227.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2011) 'The Geography of Comparative Literature.' Journal of Literary Theory, 5 (2).

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2011) 'The modernity of premodern Islam in contemporary Daghestan.' Contemporary Islam, 5 (2). pp. 161-183.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2010) 'Becoming a Georgian Woman.' Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 31 (2). pp. 127-144.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2009) 'The Twilight of Georgian Literary Modernism.' Metamorphoses: Journal of the Five-College Seminar on Literary Translation, 17 (1). pp. 50-103.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2008) 'How Newness Enters the World: The Methodology of Sheldon Pollock.' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 28 (3). pp. 533-557.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2007) 'The Engaged Outsider: Politkovskaya and the Politics of Representing War.' spacesofidentity.net, 7 (2).

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2007) 'Transgressive Sanctity: The Abrek in Chechen Culture.' Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 8 (2). pp. 271-306.

Conference or Workshop Items

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2018) The Communist International and the Muslim Umma: Marxist Solidarities from Baku to Calcutta (Keynote Lecture, 8 June, UCL). In: Communism in the vernacular: international imaginaries, local politics, 8 June 2018, University College London, Institute for Advanced Studies.

Book Reviews

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2016) 'Review of: Mirror of Dew: The Poetry of Alam-Taj Zhale Qa'em-Maqami.' International Journal of Persian Literature, 1 (1). pp. 186-194.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2013) 'Review of: Strangers in a Strange Land: Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Georgian Imaginaries by Paul Manning.' Ab Imperio, 2013 (3). pp. 441-445.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2011) 'Book review: 'Daghestan and the World of Islam' and 'Islam and Sufism in Daghestan'.' Central Asian Survey, 30 (2). pp. 297-300.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2010) 'Review of: Takhyīl: The Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetics. Volume 1: Texts.' Journal of Arabic Literature, 41 (3). pp. 327-330.

Audios

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2023) Rebecca Ruth Gould on the Marc Steiner Show. Interview about Erasing Palestine. The Marc Steiner Show. [Audio]

Datasets

Gould, Rebecca Ruth, Hamamra, Bilal and Mayaleh, Asala (2023) Dataset 1 [title to be added following publication]. [Datasets] (Unpublished)

Other

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2017) 'Crossing the Danube.' New Writing, 14 (3). Taylor and Francis. pp. 369-378.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2013) 'The Lure of Romance.' Women's Studies, 42 (6). Taylor and Francis. pp. 720-730.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2011) 'The spoils of war.' New Writing, 8 (1). Taylor and Francis. pp. 35-42.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2009) 'Love: Modern Discourses: Caucasus.' In: Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Culture. Leiden: Brill. pp. 130-131.