Rebecca Ruth Gould

Rebecca Ruth Gould

Center Associate

Distinguished Professor in Comparative Poetics and Global Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Rebecca Ruth Gould’s books include Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom (Verso, 2023), The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (Yale University Press, 2016). She has written on the Caucasus and Iran for Index on Censorship, Eurasianet, and Transitions Online, among other venues, and has translated Alexandre Qazbegi, Titsian Tabidze, Bijan Elahi and Hasan Alizadeh into English. She is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.