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  1. Against the depoliticisation of Palestinian female shahids

    Article • Third World Quarterly, September 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  2. The Hierarchy of Victims: Media Coverage and the Limits of Euro-American Solidarity

    Article • Journal of Intercultural Studies, July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  3. Hyper-exegesis in Persian translations of the Qu'ran: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges

    Article • International Journal of Middle East Studies, February 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  4. Prismatic Jane Eyre

    Article • November 2023, Open Book Publishers

    Dr Ida Klitgård, Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  5. 8. The Translatability of Love

    Article • November 2023, Open Book Publishers

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  6. Dangerous Definitions: Free Speech Implications of Legal Definitions of Racism, Antisemitism and Islamophobia within the UK

    Article • October 2022, Al-Mahdi Institute

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  7. Afterword to Persianate Pasts, National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century

    Article • Iranian Studies, July 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  8. The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy

    Article • Journal of Arabic Literature, April 2021, Brill

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  9. THE LIMITS OF LIBERAL INCLUSIVITY: HOW DEFINING ISLAMOPHOBIA NORMALIZES ANTI-MUSLIM RACISM

    Article • Journal of Law and Religion, August 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  10. The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism: Defining Antisemitism by Erasing Palestinians

    Article • The Political Quarterly, July 2020, Wiley

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  11. The Temporality of Desire in Ḥasan Dihlavī’s ʿIshqnāma (Book of Love)

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  12. Russifying the Radif: Lyric Translatability and the Russo-Persian Ghazal

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  13. Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov’s natives

    Article • Journal of Postcolonial Writing, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  14. The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism as a Case Study in Censored Speech

    Article • Law Culture and the Humanities, August 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  15. Telling the Story of Literature from Inside Out

    Article • Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East, May 2018, Duke University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  16. Akhundzadeh in Old Tbilisi

    Article • Interventions, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  17. Hard Translation

    Article • Forum for Modern Language Studies, February 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  18. Bīdel

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  19. The Aesthetic Terrain of Settler Colonialism: Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov's Natives

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2018, Elsevier

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  20. We Need Principles, Not Rules, to Fight Antisemitism: The IHRA Definition and the Politics of Defining Racism (OpenDemocracy)

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  21. Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience

    Article • Journal of American Studies, December 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  22. Beyond the Taqlīd/Ijtihād Dichotomy: Daghestani Legal Thought under Russian Rule


    Article • Islamic Law and Society, March 2017, Brill

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  23. Crossing the Danube

    Article • New Writing, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  24. Literature as a tribunal: the modern Iranian prose of incarceration

    Article • Prose Studies, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  25. Writers and Rebels. The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus by Rebecca Gould

    Article • The Comparatist, January 2017, Project Muse

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  26. The Persian Translation of Arabic Aesthetics: Raduyani's Rhetorical Renaissance

    Article • Rhetorica, November 2016, University of California Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  27. Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus

    Article • September 2016, Yale University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  28. Regulating Rebellion

    Article • September 2016, Yale University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  29. The Abrek in Soviet Chechen Literature

    Article • September 2016, Yale University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  30. The Caucasus as Region, Literature as Method

    Article • September 2016, Yale University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  31. The Georgian Poetics of Insurgency

    Article • September 2016, Yale University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  32. Transgression as Sanctity?

    Article • September 2016, Yale University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  33. Violence as Recognition, Recognition as Violence

    Article • September 2016, Yale University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  34. Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqāni’s Christian Qasida and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān

    Article • Journal of Persianate Studies, June 2016, Brill

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  35. Finding Bazorkin in the Caucasus: A Journey from Anthropology to Literature

    Article • Anthropology & Humanism, June 2016, Wiley

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  36. The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology

    Article • Intellectual History Review, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  37. Vested Reading: Writing the Self throughEthan Frome

    Article • Life Writing, February 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  38. The Critique of Religion as Political Critique: MMrzz Fatt All khhndzzda's Pre-Islamic Xenology

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2016, Elsevier

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  39. Finding Bazorkin in the Caucasus: A Journey from Anthropology to Literature

    Article • January 2016, Elsevier

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  40. The Geographies of ͨAjam

    Article • The Medieval History Journal, April 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  41. Teaching Guide for “The Political Cosmology of Prison Poetics”

    Article • Literature Compass, January 2015, Wiley

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  42. Ijtihād against Madhhab: Legal Hybridity and the Meanings of Modernity in Early Modern Daghestan

    Article • Comparative Studies in Society and History, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  43. Philology’s Contingent Genealogies

    Article • Philology, January 2015, Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  44. https://www.academia.edu/14947303/Titsian_Tabidze_Tbilisi_Evening_Prairie_Schooner

    Article • Prairie Schooner, January 2015, Project Muse

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  45. The Much-Maligned Panegyric:

    Article • Comparative Literature Studies, January 2015, The Pennsylvania State University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  46. Hijab as commodity form: Veiling, unveiling, and misveiling in contemporary Iran

    Article • Feminist Theory, December 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  47. Form without a Home: On Translating the Indo-Persian Radīf

    Article • Translation Review, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  48. The Poetics from Athens to al-Andalus

    Article • Modern Philology, August 2014, University of Chicago Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  49. The Political Cosmology of Prison Poetics: Khāqānī of Shirwān on Muslim-Christian Difference

    Article • Literature Compass, July 2014, Wiley

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  50. Book review: Die Islamgelehrten Daghestans und ihre arabischen Werke. Nadīr ad-Durgilīs (st. 1935) Nuzhat al-adhhān fī tarāğim ʿulamāʾ Dāġistān, written by Michael Kemper and Amri R. Shikhsaidov Book review: Uslada umov v biografiiakh dagestanskikh uch...

    Article • Journal of Arabic Literature, May 2014, Brill

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  51. ANTIQUARIANISM AS GENEALOGY: ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO'S METHOD

    Article • History and Theory, April 2014, Wiley

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  52. Aleksandre Qazbegi’s Mountaineer Prosaics: The Anticolonial Vernacular on Georgian–Chechen Borderlands

    Article • Ab Imperio, January 2014, Project Muse

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  53. Sumud: The Palestinian Art of Existence

    Article • World Policy Journal, January 2014, Duke University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  54. Persian Autobiography Syllabus

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  55. Postnational Feminism in Postcolonial Syria

    Article • WSQ Women s Studies Quarterly, January 2014, Project Muse

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  56. The Materiality of Resistance

    Article • Social Text, January 2014, Duke University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  57. Conservative in Form, Revolutionary in Content: Rethinking World Literary Canons in an Age of Globalization

    Article • Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, January 2014, Project Muse

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  58. Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran by Amy Motlagh

    Article • Journal of Middle East Women s Studies, November 2013, Duke University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  59. To Boycott or Not? A Moral Conundrum

    Article • Peace Review, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  60. The Lure of Romance

    Article • Women s Studies, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  61. Inimitability versus Translatability

    Article • The Translator, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  62. Laws, Exceptions, Norms: Kierkegaard, Schmitt, and Benjamin on the Exception

    Article • Telos, March 2013, Telos Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  63. Jim Crow in the Soviet Union

    Article • Callaloo, January 2013, Project Muse

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  64. The Death of Caucasus Philology: Towards a Discipline Beyond Areal Divides

    Article • Iran and the Caucasus, January 2013, Brill

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  65. Strangers in a Strange Land: Occidentalist Publics and Orientalist Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Georgian Imaginaries by Paul Manning

    Article • Ab Imperio, January 2013, Project Muse

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  66. Ronit Ricci, Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion and the Arab Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Article • Comparative Studies in Society and History, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  67. Topographies of Anticolonialism

    Article • Comparative Literature Studies, January 2013, The Pennsylvania State University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  68. World Literature as a Communal Apartment: Semyon Lipkin's Ethics of Translational Difference

    Article • Translation and Literature, November 2012, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  69. The Sublimity of Charles Bovary

    Article • Literary Imagination, October 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  70. Writing Now Review Essay

    Article • Wasafiri, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  71. Prisons before Modernity: Incarceration in the Medieval Indo-Mediterranean

    Article • Al-Masāq, August 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  72. Reading Ruins against the Grain: Istanbul, Derbent, Postcoloniality

    Article • Culture Theory and Critique, April 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  73. Adam Bede’s Dutch Realism and the Novelist’s Point of View

    Article • Philosophy and Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  74. Philology, Education, Democracy

    Article • Journal of Aesthetic Education, January 2012, University of Illinois Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  75. Allegory and the Critique of Sovereignty: Ismail Kadare's Political Theologies

    Article • Studies in the Novel, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  76. DIALECTICS OF FILIATION AND AFFILIATION

    Article • Interventions, December 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  77. Secularism and Belief in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge

    Article • Journal of Islamic Studies, September 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  78. Book Reviews

    Article • Central Asian Survey, May 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  79. Mahsati of Ganja's Wandering Quatrains: Translator's Introduction

    Article • Literary Imagination, March 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  80. The Spoils of War

    Article • New Writing, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  81. The Geography of Comparative Literature

    Article • Journal of Literary Theory, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  82. Islam and Sufism in Daghestan (Book Review)

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2011, Elsevier

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  83. Love - Modern Discourses (Caucasus)

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2011, Elsevier

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  84. Don Quixote's Hunger

    Article • symplokē, January 2011, University of Nebraska Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  85. The modernity of premodern Islam in contemporary Daghestan

    Article • Contemporary Islam, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  86. The Modernity of Premodern Islam in Contemporary Daghestan

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  87. Becoming a Georgian Woman

    Article • Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies, January 2010, JSTOR

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  88. Language Dreamers: Race and the Politics of Etymology in the Caucasus

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  89. The Engaged Outsider: Politkovskaya and the Politics of Representing War

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  90. Takhyīl: The Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetics. Volume 1: Texts

    Article • Journal of Arabic Literature, January 2010, Brill

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  91. Becoming a Georgian Woman

    Article • Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies, January 2010, University of Nebraska Press

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould

  92. Transgressive Sanctity: The Abrek in Chechen Culture

    Article • Kritika Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, January 2007, Project Muse

    Professor, Islamic World and Comparative Literatures Rebecca Ruth Gould