Rebecca Gould

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Assistant Professor
Division of Humanities
Yale-NUS College
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Comparative Literature

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Persian Literature

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

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

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

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

Quatrains of Mahsati of Ganja, Literary Imagination (2011)

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

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

Russian Literature

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

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

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

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

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

Evening Prayers (by Idris Bazorkin) (2010)

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

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

Georgian Literature

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

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

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

Landslide - Interview with the Descendants of Titsian Tabidze (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)

Intellectual History

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gender

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

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

Chechnya

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Chechens Through the Russian Prism, Transitions Online (2005)

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

Anthropology

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

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

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

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

Political Theory

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

Beyond Anti-Semitism, Counterpunch (2011)

Felon Voting Rights and Democracy, Open Democracy (2010)

Arabic Literature

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Islam

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

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

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

Beyond Anti-Semitism, Counterpunch (2011)

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)

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

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

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

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

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, Kavkaz i Lev Tolstoi (full book) (1928)

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

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

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

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