Rebecca Ruth Gould is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics, SOAS University of London. She works at the intersection of politics and poetics across a wide geography that encompasses the Middle East and the Caucasus. She is the author of Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom (Verso, 2023), The Persian Prison Poem (Edinburgh UP, 2021), and Writers and Rebels: The Literatures of Insurgency in the Caucasus (Yale UP, 2016), which won the University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies and the best book of the year award from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies. With Malaka Shwaikh, she is the author of Prison Hunger Strikes in Palestine: A Strategic Perspective (International Center on Nonviolent Conflict Research Monograph Series, 2023).

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