Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Ruth Gould is a writer, translator, and Distinguished Professor, Comparative Poetics & Global Politics at
SOAS University of London. Her interests range across the
Caucasus, Comparative Literature, Islam, Islamic Law, Islamic Studies, Persian literature, poetry, and poetics. Her PhD dissertation focused on Persian prison poetry, and was published in revised form as ''The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination (2021)''. Her articles and translations have received awards from
English PEN, the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize, the
Modern Language Association’s Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship, and the
British Association for American Studies' Arthur Miller Centre Essay Prize. Gould's work also deals with legal theory and the theory of racism, and she is a critic of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's
Working Definition of Antisemitism.
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