Rebecca Ruth Gould is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics at SOAS University of London. Her most recent book is Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom (Verso, 2023). Her next book is Sex and the State: Marriage and the Origins of Gender Inequality (Stanford University Press). Her writing has been featured by Al Jazeera and published by London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Arab, Jacobin, and Middle East Eye. Gould is the editor, author, and publisher of The Textual Materialist: rgould.substack.com.
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2019
Five Scenes from Icarus
I. Justice Each word is sacrificed to a sword that beams forth its light. It rains. Each word wears a white mask and a self to be submitted to the […]
Translation Folio
Winter 2025
A Coffin for Four
There are also stories for which the omniscient narrator must bite their lip. For their tears not to wet the lines. The omniscient narrator must simply grit their teeth, be […]
Fall 2013
Packing My Library: Benjaminian Fragments of a Peripatetic Life
“I have made the most memorable purchases on trips, as a transient,” wrote Walter Benjamin in his 1931 essay, “Unpacking My Library.” In this essay, Benjamin imagines the book collector as a spy on a literary reconnaissance mission.