Rebecca Ruth Gould

University of Birmingham

Professor

College of Arts and Law

Birmingham, UK, Birmingham B15 2TT

United Kingdom

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/rebeccagould

Harvard University - Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

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1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor

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United States

http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/about-us/people/rebecca-gould

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1.

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

Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Politics, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Culture, and the Arts, Vol. 162, pp. 1-19, 2013
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 11 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2013
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Georgian Literary Modernism: Poems by Titsian Tabidze, Paolo Iashvili and Galaktion Tabidze

Metamorphosis: A Journal of Literary Translation, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 66-103, 2009
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 18 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2011
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Georgian Literature, Poetry, Literary Modernism

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Modernity, Madness, Disenchantment: Don Quixote’s Hunger

Symplokē: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 35-53, 2011
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 12 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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disenchantment, modernity, novel, Cervantes, hunger, desire, Weber

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Aaron Swartz's Legacy

Academe: Magazine of the American Association of University Professors, Vol. 100, No. 1, 2014
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 27 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 18 May 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Aaron Swartz, internet freedom, copyright, public domain, digital age

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Allegory and the Critique of Sovereignty: Ismail Kadare’s Political Theologies

Studies in the Novel 44 (2): 208-230, Summer 2012
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2013
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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sacrifice, scapegoat, allegory, socialism, political theology, power, sovereignty, post-Soviet, postcolonial, third-world, Albanian

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Prisons Before Modernity: Incarceration in the Medieval Indo-Mediterranean

Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean 24.2 (2012): 179-197.
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 23 Jul 2012
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Prisons, captivity, Persian literature, Arabic literature, prison poetry, Foucault

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Secularism and Belief in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge

Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 339-373, 2011
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2012
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Islam, Christianity, Secularity, Secularism, Sufism, Chechnya, Anthropology, Islam, Post-Soviet, Pankisi, Asad

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Legal Form and Legal Legitimacy: The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism As a Case Study in Censored Speech

Law Culture and the Humanities, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 19 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2019
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Free Speech, Academic Freedom, Censorship, Speech Codes, Hate Speech, Legal Indeterminacy, Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Political Theory, Universities, Israel/palestine

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The Geography of Comparative Literature

Journal of Literary Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2011
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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comparative literature, literary theory, Arabic, intellectual history, anthologies

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Adam Bede's Dutch Realism and the Novelist's Point of View

Philosophy and Literature 36.2 (2013): 423-442.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 27 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2013
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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novel, fiction, realism, prose, painting, George Eliot, Rorty, pragmatism, Hegel, representation

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Philology, Education, Democracy

Journal of Aesthetic Education 46.4 (Winter 2012): 57-69
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 02 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2013
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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pedagogy, canonicity, humanities, public education, Gramsci

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The Sublimity of Charles Bovary

Literary Imagination 15.2 (2012): 1-8.
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 18 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2012
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Flaubert, characterization, prose narrative, irony, holy fool, Dostoevsky

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

CAUCASUS PARADIGMS: ANTHROPOLOGIES, HISTORIES, AND THE MAKING OF A WORLD AREA, Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia, Vol. 13, pp. 143-166, Bruce Grant, Lale Yalçın-Heckmann, eds., Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2007
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2013
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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language, nationalism, Marr, Kists, Pankisi, Chechnya, Gumashvili, post-Soviet, linguists, Georgia

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The Modernity of Premodern Islam in Contemporary Daghestan

Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 161-183, 2011
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 22 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2012
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Daghestan, Dagestan, Arabic, the Caucasus, Islam, Russo-Chechen War, modernity, secularity

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The Poetics from Athens to al-Andalus: Ibn Rushd's Grounds for Comparison

Modern Philology 112.1 (2014): 1-24.
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 12 Jan 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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cross-cultural poetics, translation, reception, Greek, Arabic, literary theory, mistranslation, Borges, Ibn Rushd, Aristotle

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Engendering Critique: Postnational Feminism in Postcolonial Syria

Women Studies Quarterly 42.3/4 (2014): 209-229.
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Arab women writers, Ghada al-Samman, Syria, transnational feminism, critique, gender, postcoloniality, academic freedom

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Becoming a Georgian Woman

Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 127-144, 2010
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2011
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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acculturation, assimilation, Christianity, nationalism, gender, post-Soviet, Caucasus, Georgia, feminism, birth control

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Is the ‘Hate’ in Hate Speech the ‘Hate’ in Hate Crime? Waldron and Dworkin on Political Legitimacy

Forthcoming, Jurisprudence
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2019
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Hate Speech, Censorship, Democracy, Political Legitimacy, Ronald Dworkin, Jeremy Waldron, IHRA Definition, Antisemitism, Israel/Palestine

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Ignaty Krachkovsky’s Encounters with Arabic Literary Modernity through Amīn Al-Riḥānī

AMEEN RIHANI'S ARAB-AMERICAN LEGACY, Naji Oueijan, ed., Notre Dame University Press, 2012
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2013
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Arabic, literary modernity, Russian, Orientalism, Levant, translation

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Transgressive Sanctity: The Abrek in Chechen Culture

Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 271-306, Spring 2007
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Chechnya, Islam, Violence, Banditry, Criminality, Colonialism, Post-Soviet, Rebellion, Literature, Law

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Antiquarianism as Genealogy: Arnaldo Momigliano's Method

History and Theory 53.2 (2014): 212-233.
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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historical method, Herodotus, antiquarianism, disciplinarity

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Hijab as Commodity Form: Veiling, Unveiling, and Misveiling in Contemporary Iran

Feminist Theory 15.3 (2014): 221-240.
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Jan 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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hijab, gender, veiling, Iran, Islam, feminism

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Islam and Sufism in Daghestan (Book Review)

Central Asian Survey, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 297-300, June 2011
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 04 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 15 May 2011
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Islam, Daghestan, Caucasus, Arabic, Soviet, Russian, Religion

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Inimitability Versus Translatability: The Structure of Literary Meaning in Arabo-Persian Poetics

The Translator. Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 81-104, 2013
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Translatability, Persian, Arabic, Poetry, Walter Benjamin, Structure, Nazm, Translation, Islam, I'jaz

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How Gulbadan Remembered: The Book of Humāyūn as an Act of Representation

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 6, pp. 121-127, 2011
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 21 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2013
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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women, gender, India, autobiography, memory, historiography, representation

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Leaving the House of Memory: Post-Soviet Traces of Deportation Memory

Mosaic, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 149-164, 2012
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 08 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2012
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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memory, literature, trauma, genocide, Chechen, Daghestan, Ingush, Caucasus

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Jim Crow in the Soviet Union

Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters 36.1 (2013): 125-141
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 26 May 2013 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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race, Soviet, discrimination, native tongue, Marxism, Uzbek, Russian, postcolonial, interracial relationships

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Idris Bazorkin's Evening Prayers

THE RUSSIA READER: CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS, pp. 293-302, Bruce Grant & Adele Barker, eds., Duke University Press, 2010
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 08 Jan 2011
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Post-Soviet, Literatures of the Caucasus, Postcolonial, Ingush, Chechen

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Jihad (Caucasus)

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN AND ISLAMIC CULTURES: JIHAD, Vol. 6, pp. 36-37, Suad Joseph, Afsaneh Najmabadi, eds., Koninklijke Brill, 2007
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 03 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2011
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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jihad, Islam, Caucasus, gender, Chechnya, martyrdom, war, violence, conflict

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The Limits of Liberal Inclusivity: How Defining Islamophobia Normalises Anti-Muslim Racism

Forthcoming, Journal of Law and Religion
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 Apr 2019
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Reading Ruins Against the Grain: Istanbul, Derbent, Postcoloniality

Culture, Theory and Critique, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 1-18, 2012
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 27 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2012
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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ruins, memory, modernity, postcoloniality, museums, urban, Caucasus, Daghestan, Dagestan, Turkey

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Behind the Wall of the Caucasus

The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 291-307, 2005
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 20 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2012
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University of Birmingham
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war, violence, colonialism, postcolonialism, literature, Islam, Caucasus, Chechnya, Russia, trauma

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Felon Voting Rights and Democracy

Open Democracy, July 2010
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 13 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 15 May 2011
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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felon disenfranchisement, democracy, prisons, citizenship

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'Hard Translation: Persian Poetry and Post-National Literary Form'

Forum for Modern Language Studies (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 05 Jul 2017
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Persian poetry, comparative literature, world literature, translatability, translation theory, poetics, Shafiʿī Kadkanī, Lu Xun, Walter Benjamin

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The Abrek in Chechen Folklore

Amirani: Journal of the International Caucasological Research Institute, Vol. 14/15, pp. 37-46, 2006
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 23 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2011
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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folklore, Islam, violence, colonialism, bandit, crime, sanctity, hero

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Courtship (Caucasus)

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN AND ISLAMIC CULTURES: COURTSHIP, Vol. 6, pp. 105-106, Suad Joseph, Afsaneh Najmabadi, eds., Koninklijke Brill, 2007
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 03 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2011
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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courtship, love, women, gender, caucasus, Islam, fiction, Soviet, Caucasus

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The Engaged Outsider: Politkovskaya and the Politics of Representing War

Spaces of Identity, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 7-30, 2007
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2013
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Anna Politkovskaya, Chechnya, war, feminism

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Everyday Violence, Quotidian Grief: Patriarchal Bargains in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge

Women Living Under Muslim Laws Dossier 32-33: Sexualities, Culture and Society in Muslim Contexts, ed. Anissa Hélie (London: Women Living Under Muslim Laws), 123-135.
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 05 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2015
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University of Birmingham
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patriarchy, gender, sexuality, bridal kidnapping, patriarchal bargains, Georgia, Pankisi, Chechens

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Chechens Through the Russian Prism

Transitions Online, 2005
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 01 May 2010 Last Revised: 15 May 2011
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Valery Tishkov, Chechnya, Anthropology of War, Violence

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Topographies of Anticolonialism: The Ecopoetical Sublime in the Caucasus from Tolstoy to Mamakaev

Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 87-107, 2013
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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ecocriticism, poetics, postcolonial, Caucasus, Tolstoy, Mamakaev, Chechnya, Chechen, indigeneity

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Race, Gender, and Difference (Caucasus)

Koninkiljke Brill, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN AND ISLAMIC CULTURES: RACE, GENDER AND DIFFERENCE, Vol. 6, pp. 76-78, Suad Joseph, Afsaneh Najmabadi, eds., Leiden, 2007
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 03 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2011
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University of Birmingham
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Caucasus, Islam, race, gender, ethnicity, difference, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azeribaijan

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Sexualities--Practices (Caucasus)

Koninklijke Brill, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN AND ISLAMIC CULTURES: SEXUALITIES PRACTICES, Vol. 6, pp. 142-143, Suad Joseph, Afsaneh Najmabadi, eds., Leiden, 2007
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 03 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2011
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University of Birmingham
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sexuality, islam, caucasus, marriage, divorce

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Ijtihād Against Madhhab: Legal Hybridity and the Meanings of Modernity in Early Modern Daghestan

Comparative Studies in Society and History 57(1): 35-66.
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 11 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Islamic law, ijtihad, Yemen, Dagestan, Daghestan, Caucasus, early modernity

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Mahsati of Ganja’s Wandering Quatrains: Translator’s Introduction

Literary Imagination, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 225-231, 2011
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 15 May 2011 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2011
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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poetry, Persian, women writers, translation, medieval, sexuality

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The Materiality of Resistance: Israel's Apartheid Wall in an Age of Globalization

Social Text 118 (2014): 1-22.
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 Jan 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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globalization, Israel/Palestine, wall, borders, enclosure, conflict

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World Literature as a Communal Apartment

Translation and Literature, Vol. 21.3, pp. 402-421, 2012
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 10 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2013
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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world literature, Soviet, East-West exchange, translation, cultural difference, Persian, Chechen

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The Geographies of 'Ajam: The Circulation of Persian Poetry from South Asia to the Caucasus

Medieval History Journal 18.1 (2015): 87-119
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Review of Rafik Schami's The Calligrapher's Secret (2008)

Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing 27 (3): 94-96
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 13 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2013
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Syria, fiction, calligraphy, art, diaspora, Syrian-German, Islamic history

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Stereotypes (Caucasus)

Koninklijke Brill, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN AND ISLAMIC CULTURES: STEREOTYPES - THE CAUCASUS, Vol. 6, pp. 92-93, Suad Joseph, Afsaneh Najmabadi, eds., Leiden, 2007
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 03 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2011
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University of Birmingham
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Caucasus, gender, abortion, virginity, female purity, myths

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Idris Bazorkin's Light of the Ancestors

Washington Square, Vol. 27, pp. 152-167, 2010
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 15 May 2011
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Post-Soviet, Literatures of the Caucasus, Postcolonial, Ingush, Chechen

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The Spoils of War

New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 35-42, 2011
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 06 Mar 2011
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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War, Colonialism, Chechnya, Palestine, Violence, Corruption

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Sumud: The Palestinian Art of Existence

World Policy Journal 31.3 (2014): 99-106.
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 13 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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resistance, Palestine, walls, borders, checkpoints, art, politics

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Persian Autobiography Syllabus

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 05 Jan 2018
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University of Birmingham
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Iran, selfhood, autobiography, literature

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Why Daghestan Is Good to Think: Moshe Gammer, Daghestan, and Global Islamic History

Written Culture in Daghestan, Ed. Moshe Gammer (Helsinki: Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, 2015), 17-40.
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2015
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Islam, Daghestan, world history, Arabic, Russia

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

Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/ Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 41.3 (2014): 270-286.
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 12 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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world literature, pedagogy, literary comparison, globalization, Yale-NUS, higher education, canons

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Rape - The Caucasus

Koninklijke Brill NV, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN AND ISLAMIC CULTURES: RAPE - THE CAUCASUS, Vol. 6, pp. 82-83, Suad Joseph, Afsaneh Najmabadi, eds., Leiden, 2007
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 03 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2011
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University of Birmingham
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rape, gender, caucasus, georgian literature, violence, war

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Representations: Fiction, Modern (The Caucasus)

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN AND ISLAMIC CULTURES, Vol. V, Practices, Interpretations and Representations, pp. 422-3, Suad Joseph, ed., Leiden, 2007
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 17 Aug 2011
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University of Birmingham
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fiction, Muslim, Georgian, representations

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Dialectics of Filiation and Affiliation

Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 640-650, 2011
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 15 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2012
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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anticolonialism, postcolonialism, revolution, Georgia, Caucasus, independence, empire, Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet

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Landslide - Rebecca Gould Interviews the Descendants of Titsian Tabidze

Guernica - A Magazine of Art & Politics, August 2010
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 13 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2010
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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literary modernism, poetry, Georgia, post-Soviet literature, censorship

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Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in Post-9/11 America

Journal of American Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 31 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2018
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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American Islam, dissent, terrorism, violence, non-violence, prison writing, Thoreau, Tarek Mehanna

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

Iran and the Caucasus 17.3 (2013): 275-293.
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 11 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Area Studies, Disciplinarity, Literature, Caucasus, Post-Soviet

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The Lonely Hero and Chechen Modernity: Interpreting the Story of Gekha the Abrek

“The Lonely Hero and Chechen Modernity: Interpreting the Story of Gekha the Abrek,” Journal of Folklore Research 51.2 (2014): 199-222.
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2015
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University of Birmingham
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Chechnya, folklore, banditry, indigineous cuture, violence, colonialism

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Democracy and the Vernacular Imagination in Vico's Plebian Philology

History of Humanities, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2018
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University of Birmingham
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Vico, Philology, Democracy, Political Theory, Vernacularity, Contingency, Language, Roman Law, Critical Theory

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

Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2018
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Settler Colonialism, Ethnography, Salvage Anthropology, Sakhalin, New Zealand, Siberia, Maori, Gilyak, Russian Colonialism, Empire

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Telling the Story of Literature from Inside Out: The Methods and Tools of Non-European Poetics

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 38.1, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 Dec 2017
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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poetics, aesthetics, literary comparison, South Asia, Islamic world, premodernity, vernacularization

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Literature as a Tribunal: The Modern Iranian Prose of Incarceration

Forthcoming in Prose Studies
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 30 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2018
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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prison, justice, memoir, testimony, aesthetics and politics, prose, modernity, Iran, Pahlavi, Islamic Revolution

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Hasan Sijzi of Dehli and the Persian Ghazal

“Hasan Sijzi and the Persian Ghazal,” The Sufi Journal 90 (Winter 2016): 46-51
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 21 Apr 2016
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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The Much-Maligned Panegyric: Toward a Political Poetics of Premodern Literary Form

“The Much-Maligned Panegyric: Toward a Political Poetics of Premodern Literary Form,” Comparative Literature Studies 52.2 (2015): 254-288.
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 08 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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poetics, comparison, literary form, politics, premodernity

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Love - Modern Discourses (Caucasus)

Koninklijke Brill, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WOMEN AND ISLAMIC CULTURES: LOVE: MODERN DISCOURSES, Vol. 6, pp. 36-37, Suad Joseph, Afsaneh Najmabadi, eds., Leiden, 2007
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 03 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2011
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Caucasus, sexuality, love, Georgian, Chechen, Soviet, gender

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Dissidence from a Distance: Iranian Politics as Viewed from Colonial Daghestan

“Dissidence from a Distance: Iranian Politics as Viewed from Colonial Daghestan,” The Frontiers of Persian Learning, ed. Nile Green (Berkeley: University of California Press, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 26 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2018
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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enlightenment, modernity, center/periphery, dissent, critique, print culture, Persian, Daghestan, empire, diaspora

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A Tale of Two Scholars: Daghestan Modernists in Early Twentieth Century Egypt

History Today (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 16 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2017
Rebecca Ruth Gould and Shamil Shikhaliev
University of Birmingham and Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
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Islam, modernism, Egypt, Dagestan, Daghestan, Russia, scholars, jadidism, Salafi, Rida, Abduh

72.

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

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 20 Dec 2018
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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IHRA definition, racism, antisemitism

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

Anthropology and Humanism 41(1): 86-101, 2016
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 30 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2016
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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anthropology of literature, colonialism, ethnographic writing, folklore, historical fiction, indigenous aesthetics, Ingush culture, literature and experience, postcolonial pastoral, the Caucasus

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Aleksandre Qazbegi's Mountaineer Prosaics: The Anticolonial Vernacular on Georgian-Chechen Borderlands

Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History in the Post-Soviet Space 15.1 (2014): 361-390.
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Georgian literature, prose, anticolonialism, postcolonial literature

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Vested Reading: Writing the Self Through Ethan Frome

Life Writing (2016)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 20 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2016
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Canons, Curriculums, Numbers

Inside Higher Ed, October 17, 2011
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 17 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2012
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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higher education, classics, budget cuts, public education, pedagogy, teaching, classroom, public policy

77.

Central Asian Literature As World Literature

Forthcoming, “Central Asian Literature as World Literature,” Central Asia in Context, ed. David Montgomery (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019).
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 31 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2019
Rebecca Ruth Gould and Amier Saidula
University of Birmingham and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Uzbek, Uyghur, Turkmen, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Russian

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Memorializing Akhundzadeh: Contradictory Cosmopolitanism and Post-Soviet Narcissism in Old Tbilisi

Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2018
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2018
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Tbilisi, cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitics, nationalism, Soviet, post-Soviet, empire, postcolonial, Persian, museums, Akhundzadeh, Akhundzadah, Akhundov, Caucasus, Iran

79.

Justice Deferred: Legal Duplicity and the Scapegoat Mentality in Paul Laurence Dunbar's Jim Crow America

Law & Literature, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 15 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2019
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Scapegoat, Lynching, Shame, Innocence, Guilt, Violence, Justice, Honor, Sacrifice, Lawyers, Narrative, Pharmakon, Pharmakos, African-American Literature, Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 24(1-2), p. 142-169, 2017
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Sep 2017
Rebecca Ruth Gould and Shamil Shikhaliev
University of Birmingham and Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
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Jim Crow in Jerusalem

Litro (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 11 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2018
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Israel/Palestine, Jim Crow, Racism, Apartheid, Segregation, Discrimination, Occupation, One-State Solution

82.

Regime Change Abroad, Fascism at Home: How US Interventions Paved the Way for Trump

Counterpunch, 2016
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 19 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2018
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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US foreign intervention, Trump, war, state violence

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'World Literature'

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, Third Edition, ed. Mona Baker and Gabriela Saldanha (London: Routledge, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 03 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2019
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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world literature, translation, circulation, untranslatability

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The Critique of Religion as Political Critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's Pre-Islamic Xenology

Intellectual History Review 26(2): 171-184, 2016
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 16 Mar 2018
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Islam, Religion, Critique

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The Persianate Cosmology of Historical Inquiry in the Caucasus

Forthcoming, Comparative Literature
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 02 May 2019
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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poetry, historiography, Caucasus, Persian, Persianate, historicism, history of science, cosmopolitanism, cosmology, nationalism, empire, science, disciplines, Persophone, Bākīkhānūf, Bakikhanov, Abbaskulu Ağa Bakülu Kudsi, Bakikhanli, Karamzin

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The Obligation to Migrate and the Impulse to Narrate: Soviet Narratives of Forced Migration in the Nineteenth Century Caucasus

Migration Ethics and Human Rights, ed. Ray Jureidini (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming)
Number of pages: 36
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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migration, Caucasus, hijra, displacement, exile

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

Number of pages: 27
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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ghazal, Orientalism, translation, translatability, Esenin, Hafez, Fet

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1.

The Islamic State's Perversion of Hijra

Project Syndicate and Qantara
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 15 Aug 2016
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Islamic State, ISIS, migration

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'A Homeless People'

Transitions Online, 16 May 2014
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 20 May 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Theorising Violence: Colonial Encounters and Anticolonial Reactions

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 09 Mar 2018
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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violence, colonialism, war, literature

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'The Montage of Tbilisi Culture' by Zaza Shatirishvili

Film International, No. 23, pp. 48-51, 2006
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 28 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2011
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Tbilisi, Georgia, Caucasus, Theater, Film, Ioseliani, Paradjanov, Sturua

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What the Tsarnaevs Didn't Know: The Untold Story of Chechen Non-Violence

Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, Religion (April 13, 2015)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 21 May 2015 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2015
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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'The Jurisprudence of 9/11 and its Aftermath' (Course Syllabus)

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 29 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2018
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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Why Internationalisation Matters in Universities

The Conversation, 2018
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 24 Jan 2019
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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education, internationalisation, internationalization, universities

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‘The IHRA Definition’s Imprecision Makes It a Threat to Free Speech’

Prospect (September 2018)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 25 Mar 2019
Rebecca Ruth Gould
University of Birmingham
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antisemitism, free speech, legality, legitimacy, Israel, Palestine