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)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Gould, Rebecca Ruth and Tahmasebian, Kayvan, eds. (2020) The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism. London: Routledge.

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 and Tahmasebian, Kayvan (2020) 'Introduction: Translation and Activism in the Time of the Now.' In: The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism. London: Routledge, pp. 1-9.

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

Hamamra, Bilal, Gould, Rebecca Ruth and Mayaleh, Asala (2024) 'Against the depoliticisation of Palestinian female shahids.' Third World Quarterly, 45 (13). pp. 1929-1946.

Hamamra, Bilal and Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2024) 'Free speech and democracy in Palestinian Universities: A call for parrhesiastic speech.' Educational Philosophy and Theory. pp. 1-15. (Forthcoming)

Mayaleh, Asala, Hamamra, Bilal and Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2024) 'The Hierarchy of Victims: Media Coverage and the Limits of Euro-American Solidarity.' Journal of Intercultural Studies. pp. 1-19. (Forthcoming)

Tahmasebian, Kayvan and Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2024) 'Hyper-exegesis in Persian Translations of the Qur’an: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges.' International Journal of Middle East Studies, 56 (1). pp. 38-54.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2023) 'Language, Memory, Massacre: The Legacy of Trauma among Chechen Diasporas.' Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, 9 (1/2). pp. 43-74.

Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan and Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2023) 'Translating Line Breaks: A View from Persian Poetics.' Comparative Literature, 75 (3). pp. 373-391.

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).

Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan and Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2022) 'The Translational Horizons of Iranian Modernism: Ahmad Shamlu’s Canon of the Global South.' Twentieth-Century Literature, 68 (1). pp. 25-52.

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.

Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan and Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2021) 'Translation as Alienation: Sufi Hermeneutics and Literary Modernism in Bijan Elahi’s Translations.' Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, 5 (4).

Gould, Rebecca Ruth and Tahmasebian, Kayvan (2020) 'The Temporality of Desire in Ḥasan Dihlavī’s ʿIshqnāma.' Journal of Medieval Worlds, 2 (3-4). pp. 72-95.

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 (2024) 'Dissecting the ‘new antisemitism’ project: Review of: Antony Lerman, 'Whatever Happened to Antisemitism? Redefinition and the Myth of the ‘Collective Jew’'. London: Pluto, 2022. xii+317pp. Notes. Ind. £17.99 pbk. ISBN: 978-0-74533-877-4 pbk.' Patterns of Prejudice, 57 (3). pp. 203-205.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth and Tahmasebian, Kayvan (2022) 'Review of: Charand-o Parand. Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907-1909.' Iranian Studies, 52 (1/2). pp. 258-261.

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.

Translations

Tahmasebian, Kayvan and Gould, Rebecca Ruth, trans. (2022) House Arrest: Poems of Hasan Alizadeh. Todmorden: Arc Publications.

Gould, Rebecca Ruth and Tahmasebian, Kayvan, trans. (2019) High Tide of the Eyes: Poems by Bijan Elahi. Brooklyn: The Operating System.

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.