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The Utility of Comparison in Resisting the Gaza Genocide (2024)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2024). The Utility of Comparison in Resisting the Gaza Genocide. Diacritics, 52(1), 140-150. https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2024.a955192

This essay examines the pro-Palestine student encampment movement of 2024 within the framework of political debates concerning comparisons between Palestinian and Jewish historical experience. I turn to recent efforts to compare Gaza with the Warsaw... Read More about The Utility of Comparison in Resisting the Gaza Genocide.

Against the depoliticisation of Palestinian female shahids (2024)
Journal Article
Hamamra, B., Gould, R. R., & Mayaleh, A. (2024). Against the depoliticisation of Palestinian female shahids. Third World Quarterly, 45(13), 1929-1946. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2024.2409917

Palestinian women’s engagement with politics and their appropriation of conventionally masculine acts of martyrdom during the Second Intifada (2002–2005) have been subject to intense public debate, media scrutiny and contested cultural representation... Read More about Against the depoliticisation of Palestinian female shahids.

Free speech and democracy in Palestinian Universities: A call for parrhesiastic speech (2024)
Journal Article
Hamamra, B., & Gould, R. R. (2024). Free speech and democracy in Palestinian Universities: A call for parrhesiastic speech. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 56(13), 1317-1331. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2024.2391857

This article examines the factors contributing to the suppression of free speech in Palestine, with a focus on the West Bank. We argue that anti-democratic politics and restricted public discourse in both public and academic spheres are mutually rein... Read More about Free speech and democracy in Palestinian Universities: A call for parrhesiastic speech.

The Hierarchy of Victims: Media Coverage and the Limits of Euro-American Solidarity (2024)
Journal Article
Mayaleh, A., Hamamra, B., & Gould, R. R. (2025). The Hierarchy of Victims: Media Coverage and the Limits of Euro-American Solidarity. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 46(1), 172-190. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2024.2374557

Further developing Stephen McCloskey’s argument that the war on Ukraine has revealed a hierarchy of victims that is rooted in racial and other forms of prejudice, we show how refugees from the Muslim world and Africa are stereotyped as potential crim... Read More about The Hierarchy of Victims: Media Coverage and the Limits of Euro-American Solidarity.

Hyper-exegesis in Persian Translations of the Qur’an: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges (2024)
Journal Article
Tahmasebian, K., & Gould, R. R. (2024). Hyper-exegesis in Persian Translations of the Qur’an: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 56(1), 38-54. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743824000266

Although translation and commentary are often treated as distinct, separable activities in literary and intellectual history, the Persian tradition of Qur'an exegesis demonstrates that they are best understood in relation to each other. Introducing t... Read More about Hyper-exegesis in Persian Translations of the Qur’an: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges.

Dissecting the ‘new antisemitism’ project: Review of: Antony Lerman, 'Whatever Happened to Antisemitism? Redefinition and the Myth of the ‘Collective Jew’'. London: Pluto, 2022. xii+317pp. Notes. Ind. £17.99 pbk. ISBN: 978-0-74533-877-4 pbk. (2023)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2023). Dissecting the ‘new antisemitism’ project: Review of: Antony Lerman, 'Whatever Happened to Antisemitism? Redefinition and the Myth of the ‘Collective Jew’'. London: Pluto, 2022. xii+317pp. Notes. Ind. £17.99 pbk. ISBN: 978-0-74533-877-4 pbk. Patterns of Prejudice, 57(3), 203-205. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322x.2023.2319001

The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran (2023)
Book Chapter
Tahmasebian, K., & Gould, R. R. The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran. In M. Reynolds (Ed.), Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel across Languages (451-491). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0319.12

This essay examines how twentieth century Iranian readers situated Jane Eyre within the classical genre of romance literature (adabiyāt-i ʿāshiqāna), originating from the tradition of love narratives in verse (ʿishq-nāma) pioneered by the twelfth cen... Read More about The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran.

Rebecca Ruth Gould on the Marc Steiner Show. Interview about Erasing Palestine. (2023)
Digital Artefact
Gould, R. R. (2023). Rebecca Ruth Gould on the Marc Steiner Show. Interview about Erasing Palestine. [YouTube]

The question of historical and present antisemitism is at the heart of Zionism, though not always in the ways supporters of Israel would believe. In the effort to shield Israel from criticism of occupation and apartheid, organizations such as the Int... Read More about Rebecca Ruth Gould on the Marc Steiner Show. Interview about Erasing Palestine..

Translating Line Breaks: A View from Persian Poetics (2023)
Journal Article
Tahmasebian Dehkordi, K., & Gould, R. R. (2023). Translating Line Breaks: A View from Persian Poetics. Comparative Literature, 75(3), 373-391. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10475471

Line breaks are arguably the defining feature of poetry, in the absence of which a text becomes prose. Consequently, the translation of line breaks is a decisive issue for every poetry translator. Classical and modern literary theorists have argued t... Read More about Translating Line Breaks: A View from Persian Poetics.

The Translational Horizons of Iranian Modernism: Ahmad Shamlu’s Canon of the Global South (2022)
Journal Article
Tahmasebian Dehkordi, K., & Gould, R. R. (2022). The Translational Horizons of Iranian Modernism: Ahmad Shamlu’s Canon of the Global South. Twentieth-Century Literature, 68(1), 25-52. https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462x-9668884

This article explores how the Iranian poet and translator Ahmad Shamlu (1925–2000) reconceives the configuration of world poetics. Working at the intersection of global modernism and translation studies, it traces the formation of a Persian modernist... Read More about The Translational Horizons of Iranian Modernism: Ahmad Shamlu’s Canon of the Global South.

The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination (2021)
Book
Gould, R. R. (2021). The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474484015.001.0001

The Persian Prison Poem is the first study of the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across twelfth-century Central, South, and West Asia. While documenting the emergence of a concept of poetry as a form of political resistance, the book shows the profoun... Read More about The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination.

The Temporality of Interlinear Translation (2021)
Journal Article
Tahmasebian Dehkordi, K., & Gould, R. R. (2021). The Temporality of Interlinear Translation. Representations, 155(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2021.155.1.1

This article examines the temporality of interlinear translation through a case study of the rendering of Friedrich Hölderlin’s poetry into Persian. We argue that, in its adherence to the word order of the original, the interlinear crib prioritizes t... Read More about The Temporality of Interlinear Translation.

The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy (2021)
Journal Article
Swanson, M., & Ruth Gould, R. The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy. Journal of Arabic Literature, 52(1-2), 170-201. https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341433

Drawing on archival research, this article introduces several Russian poems by the Arabic mahjar poet and writer Mikhail Naimy (Mīkhāʿīl Nu’aymah) (1889-1988) for the first time to scholarship. By examining the influence of Russian literature on Naim... Read More about The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy.