Rebecca Ruth Gould

United Kingdom

Global poetics+politics @SOAS | @balaghas @PoetryExile @globalsouths | author @VersoBooks @EdinburghUP @yalepress |✊academic freedom 🇵🇸 | Non-aligned leftist

Articles

A Story That Is Finished Before It Begins

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Rebecca Ruth Gould

Global Literary Theory (ISSN 3049–8724) brings world literatures into comparison. We elucidate the aesthetics of politics and the politics of aesthetics, and support writers from all around the world. Medium’s only quadrilingual publication. We support Palestinian liberation. Follow publicationIntroducing Atefe Asadi’s “A Coffin for Four”Last year, I was thrilled to discover “A Coffin for Four,” a short story by the Iranian writer Atefe Asadi (b. 1994, Tehran), who currently resides in Germany.
Ivy League's tenured complicity in deportation of Mahmoud Khalil

1 month ago | newarab.com | Rebecca Ruth Gould

In facilitating the arrest of its student and alumni on its own campus, Columbia has abdicated its mission as a university, writes Rebecca Ruth Gould [photo credit: Getty Images] Few campuses on earth rival the diversity of Columbia University’s academic community, from tenured professors to first-year freshmen. With that diversity comes a heightened awareness of global imperialism and the harms the US empire inflicts on the world, including especially in Palestine.
Of Witches and Wise Women

2 months ago | medium.com | Rebecca Ruth Gould

How early modern Europe expelled women from the medical profession and targeted unmarried womenRebecca Ruth Gould, PhD·FollowPublished inGlobal Literary Theory·16 min read·--A Witch Riding Backwards on a Goat, with Four Putti Carrying an Alchemist’s Pot. c.1500, engraving by Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528). Image credit: British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.In 1597, Grissell Gairdner of Newburgh in the Scottish region of Fife was arrested and accused of witchcraft.
Liberalism and Empire

2 months ago | medium.com | Rebecca Ruth Gould

Member-only storyWhat two new books tell us about the war on the Palestinian peopleRebecca Ruth Gould, PhD·FollowPublished inGlobal Literary Theory·12 min read·--Book covers for One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (left) and Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal (right)Since the beginning of the Gaza Genocide in October 2023, dehumanizing rhetoric against Palestinians has surged, particularly in the metropolises that are most directly implicated in the genocide.
Liberalism and Genocide

2 months ago | rgould.substack.com | Rebecca Ruth Gould

Dear readers, Welcome to a new edition of The Textual Materialist newsletter. In the current format (which is subject to change based on your feedback!) I release a story about politics on the 1st Friday of the month, about the literary imagination on the 2nd Friday, about my book-in-progress Sex and the State on the 3rd Friday, and a story by a voice other than my own on the 4th Friday.
Omar El Akkad & Mohammed El-Kurd: Liberalism in a Time of Genocide

2 months ago | themarkaz.org | Rebecca Ruth Gould

What two new books tell us about the war on the Palestinian people.
Cinematic Critiques of Marriage

Jan 19, 2025 | medium.com | Rebecca Ruth Gould

On the long path to women’s liberation in films directed by menRebecca Ruth Gould, PhD·FollowPublished inGlobal Literary Theory·14 min read·--Film still from The Worst Person in the World, directed Joachim Trier (2021)Like other domains of popular culture, cinema mirrors the dreams and fears of the society in which it is born. It is often also in film that experiments in sex and love are acted out that appear too risky for many to implement in their everyday lives.
How Do You Divide Up the World?

Jan 13, 2025 | medium.com | Rebecca Ruth Gould

My journey through area studies and its borderlandsRebecca Ruth Gould, PhD·FollowPublished inGlobal Literary Theory·17 min read·--Ottoman Map of South America. Although the precise date of the map is unknown, it can be dated to after 1903, when Brazil acquired the Acre Region from Bolivia. In my view, social scientific knowledge should be regarded as language-dependent.
What is World Literature?

Dec 6, 2024 | medium.com | Rebecca Ruth Gould

Global Literary Theory may have an answerRebecca Ruth Gould, PhD·FollowPublished inGlobal Literary Theory·3 min read·--Young woman reading (1880), by Osman Hamdi Bey via WikimediaAs founding editor of Global Literary Theory (GLT), I confess to being delighted to see GLT included in Medium’s “Introduction to academic writing on Medium.” That inspired me to think back on all the amazing work we have published over the years and to organize it in the manner presented here.
An Unexpected Reason to Write for Global Literary Theory

Nov 29, 2024 | medium.com | Rebecca Ruth Gould

If you are in the UK, ALCS will pay you for publishing with usRebecca Ruth Gould, PhD·FollowPublished inGlobal Literary Theory·7 min read·--Banner from the website of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting SocietyThe Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society is perhaps one of the best kept secrets in the UK literary community. Penny Grubb has written an excellent introduction to the organization; beyond that I am unware of any in-depth discussion of it on this platform.