Rebecca Ruth Gould
Rebecca Ruth Gould
Rebecca Ruth Gould is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is the author of several influential works at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, including Erasing Palestine (2023), Writers and Rebels (2016), and The Persian Prison Poem (2021). Alongside Malaka Shwaikh, she co-authored Prison Hunger Strikes in Palestine (2023). Gould's articles have appeared in leading publications such as the London Review of Books, Middle East Eye, and The Nation, and her work has been translated into eleven languages
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