Rebecca Gould is Assistant Professor of Literature at Yale-NUS College (Singapore),
specializing in the literatures of the Caucasus and of the Islamic world. Her first
monograph, entitled The Literatures of Anticolonial Insurgency: Vernacular Modernities in
the Caucasus, is forthcoming from Yale University Press (Eurasia Past and Present
series). Together with her dissertation on the classical Persian prison poem (currently
being revised as a book under the title Central Asian Poetics and the Persianate
Literatures of Incarceration), these two book projects delineate poetry's ways of
engaging with, resisting, and channeling the state's power from the medieval period
to modernity, and across multiple Islamic geographies.
In addition to her scholarship on Persian, Arabic, Russian, and Georgian literatures past
and present, Rebecca maintains an active interest in the intersections of anthropology,
comparative literature, and social theory. Her essays on these subjects have appeared
recently in Telos, Social Text, Comparative Literature Studies, Philosophy &
Literature, Studies in the Novel, The Journal of Islamic Studies, and The Journal of
Literary Theory.
Rebecca is also fascinated theoretically and practically by translation. Her first
translation, Georgian Notes on the Caucasus: Three Stories by Aleksandre Qazbegi, is
forthcoming from Syracuse University Press (Middle Eastern Literatures in Translation
series). A second volume from the Persian, After Tomorrow the Days Disappear: Poems of
Hasan Sijzi of Delhi, is under contract with Northwestern University Press. Her most
recent translation project is The Light of the Ancestors (Iz tmy vekov), by the Ingush
author Idris Bazorkin.
Rebecca has received grants, awards, and fellowships from the Future Philology project at
the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the American Historical Association, the American
Philosophical Society, the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, the Medieval
Academy of America, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Van Leer Institute for
Advanced Studies (Jerusalem), and the American Literary Translators Association.
Articles
Book Chapters
Nonfiction Essays
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The Spoils of War, New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (2011)
Translations
Interviews
Book Reviews, Review Essays
Primary & (Rare) Secondary Sources on Islamic Literatures and Philology Generally (unavailable elsewhere online)
