Rebecca Gould

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Assistant Professor
Division of Humanities
Yale-NUS College
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Articles

Adam Bede’s Dutch Realism and the Novelist’s Point of View, Philosophy and Literature (2013)

Inimitability Versus Translatability: The Structure of Literary Meaning in Arabo-Persian Poetics, The Translator (2013)

Jim Crow in the Soviet Union, Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters (2013)

Laws, Exceptions, Norms: Kierkegaard, Schmitt, and Benjamin on the Exception, Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Politics, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Culture, and the Arts (2013)

Topographies of Anticolonialism: The Ecopoetical Sublime in the Caucasus from Tolstoy to Mamakaev, Comparative Literature Studies (2013)

Prisons before Modernity: Incarceration in the Medieval Indo-Mediterranean, Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean (2012)

Allegory and the Critique of Sovereignty: Ismail Kadare’s Political Theologies, Studies in the Novel (2012)

Leaving the House of Memory: Post-Soviet Traces of Deportation Memory, Mosaic, a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (2012)

Philology, Education, Democracy, Journal of Aesthetic Education (2012)

Reading Ruins against the Grain: Istanbul, Derbent, Postcoloniality, Culture, Theory and Critique (2012)

The Sublimity of Charles Bovary, Literary Imagination (2012)

World Literature as a Communal Apartment: Semyon Lipkin’s Ethics of Translational Difference, Translation and Literature (2012)

The Geography of Comparative Literature, Journal of Literary Theory (2011)

Secularism and Belief in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge, Journal of Islamic Studies (2011)

How Gulbadan Remembered: The Book of Humāyūn as an Act of Representation, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2011)

Dialectics of Filiation and Affiliation: Toma Baliauri’s Testament, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (2011)

Modernity, Madness, Disenchantment: Don Quixote’s Hunger, Symplokē: a journal for the intermingling of literary, cultural and theoretical scholarship (2011)

The Modernity of Premodern Islam in Contemporary Daghestan, Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life (2011)

How Newness Enters the World: The Methodology of Sheldon Pollock, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008)

Transgressive Sanctity: The Abrek in Chechen Culture, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (2007)

The Abrek in Chechen Folklore, Amirani: Journal of the International Caucasological Research Institute (2006)

Book Chapters

Ignaty Krachkovsky’s Encounters with Arabic Literary Modernity through Amīn Al-Riḥānī, AMEEN RIHANI'S ARAB-AMERICAN LEGACY (2012)

Imam Shamil (1797–1871), Russia's People of Empire Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Presen (2012)

Language Dreamers: Race and the Politics of Etymology in the Caucasus, CAUCASUS PARADIGMS: ANTHROPOLOGIES, HISTORIES, AND THE MAKING OF A WORLD AREA (2007)

Nonfiction Essays

Open-Sourcing the Global Academy: Aaron Swartz’s Legacy, Academe (2014)

“A Singapore Ramayana: Academic Freedom and the Liberal Arts Curriculum”, Open Democracy (2012)

Beyond Anti-Semitism, Counterpunch (2011)

Canons, Curriculums, Numbers, Inside Higher Ed (2011)

The Spoils of War, New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (2011)

Becoming a Georgian Women, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (2010)

Felon Voting Rights and Democracy, Open Democracy (2010)

Behind the Wall of the Caucasus, The Gettysburg Review (2005)

Chechens Through the Russian Prism, Transitions Online (2005)

Translations

Quatrains of Mahsati of Ganja, Literary Imagination (2011)

Evening Prayers (by Idris Bazorkin) (2010)

The Light of the Ancestors (by Idris Bazorkin) (2010)

Georgian Literary Modernism: Poems by Titsian Tabidze, Paolo Iashvili and Galaktion Tabidze (2009)

'The Montage of Tbilisi Culture' by Zaza Shatirishvili, Film International (2006)

Interviews

Landslide - Interview with the Descendants of Titsian Tabidze (2010)

Book Reviews, Review Essays

Review of The Calligrapher’s Secret by Rafik Schami, Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing 27 (3): 94-96. (2012)

Review of Islam and Sufism in Daghestan, Moshe Gammer, ed. and Daghestan and the World of Islam, ed. Moshe Gammer and David J. Wasserstein., Central Asian Survey Vol. 30, No. 2, 297–300 (2011)

Review of Takhyil: The Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetics, Journal of Arabic Literature (2010)

Primary & (Rare) Secondary Sources on Islamic Literatures and Philology Generally (unavailable elsewhere online)

Najm al-Din al-Hutsi, Ashwāq Dāghistān (full book) (1995)

Aphorismen von Jacob Bernays c. 1844-1888 (posthumously published 1988) (1988)

Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, la généalogie, l’histoire,” Hommage à Jean Hyppolite, ed. S. Bachelard, et al (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France) (1971)

Akhlakov, A. A. Geroiko-istoricheskie pesni avartsev (Heroic-historical songs of the Avars) (Makhachkala: AN SSSR, IIILGT, 1968). Full Book. (1968)

David Marshall Lang, "Landmarks in Georgian Literature" (Inaugural Lecture, London, School of Oriental and African Studies) (1966)

Abdulghani Mirzoev, Facts of the history of literary contacts between Mawarannahr and India in the second half of the 16th and at the beginning of the 17th centuries (1963)

M. Saidov, The Daghestan Arabic Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1960)

Erich Auerbach, "Philologie der Weltliteratur" (1952)

Cyril Toumanoff, Medieval Georgian Historiographic Literature (VIIth to XVth Centuries) (1943)

Ignaty Krachkovsky, "Daghestan et Yemen" (1937)

Z. Avalishvili, T'eimuraz and his poem: The Martyrdom of Queen K'et'evan (1937)

I. U. Marr, "Khakani, Nezami, Rustaveli" (full book) (1935)

M. Tsereteli, The Asianic (Asia Minor) Elements in National Georgian Paganism (1935)

Malʹsagov, Bibliograficheskiĭ spravochnik po ingushskoĭ khudozhestvennoĭ literature. Full book. (1933)

Robert P. Blake, Georgian Secular Literature: Epic, Romance, and Lyric (1100-1800) (1933)

Plaetschke, Die Tschetschenen (1929). Full book. (1929)

L.P. Semenov, Chakh Akhriev (Ingush ethnographer) (1928)

L.P. Semenov, Kavkaz i Lev Tolstoi (full book) (1928)

Manai Alibekov, Adaty kumykov (complete book) (1927)

Predanie o Hadji Murate [Legends about Haji Murat] (1927)

Amir Khusrau-e-Dehlavi, Odes (qasidas) (with Amir Khusrow) (1901)

M. M. Kovalevskii, Dagestanskaia 'narodnaia pravda' (lex barbarorum) (1890)

Zukunftsphilologie! Eine erwidrung auf F. Nietzsches ... "Geburt der tragödie" (1872)