Rebecca Gould

My work spans literature, anthropology, and political theory. Developing and current interests include human rights, freedom of expression, and comparative legal cultures. Writers of importance to me include Virginia Woolf, Mahmoud Darwish, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Titsian Tabidze (a Georgian poet), Jorge Luis Borges, Danilo Kis, Magomed Mamakaev (a Chechen poet), George Eliot, Franz Kafka, and Edith Wharton. Thinkers who have influenced me include Giambattista Vico, Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Emma Goldman. I have lived and conducted fieldwork in Iran (2012, 2014); Tajikistan (2007); Palestine (2011-12); Syria (2010); Egypt (2010, 2012); Azerbaijan (2006); Hyderabad, India (2008); Daghestan (2004, 2006); Georgia (2004-6, 2013); Chechnya and Ingushetia (2006). If you don't want to use Amazon, you can my books through the Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/lists/translations-original-works-of-rebecca-ruth-gould (10% of profits of books purchased from this site goes to local bookstores) I am on Twitter and Medium @rrgould