179:(Verso, 2023) was selected as one of the "books our avid readers and critics couldn't put down" by Declan Fry of Australia's ABC News. In assessing the book, Fry wrote, "Gould writes with acuity and a remarkable sense of candour, unafraid to aim her critical lens back upon herself. As she reminds us: 'The struggle for Palestinian freedom and the fight against antisemitism demand each other.'"
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133:. The literatures Gould has published on include Persian (classical and modern), Georgian (modern and early modern), Russian, Arabic (classical and modern), and American (Thoreau, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Edith Wharton).
164:(Yale University Press, 2016), which was awarded the University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies and the best book award by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies.
38:, Comparative Literature, Islam, Islamic Law, Islamic Studies, Persian literature, poetry, and poetics. Her PhD dissertation focused on Persian prison poetry, and was published in revised form as
195:(2021). Her essay “Watching Chekhov in Tehran” was runner-up for the Beechmore Books Arts Journalism Competition in 2020. Her poetry and translations have been nominated three times for the
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Madhhab: Legal Hybridity and the Meanings of Modernity in Early Modern Daghestan
222:(2015). Her most recently translations with Iranian poet and scholar Kayvan Tahmasebian include
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After Tomorrow the Days Disappear: Ghazals and Other Poems of Hasan Sijzi of Delhi
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The Death of Caucasus Philology: Towards a Discipline Beyond Areal Divides
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Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Liberation
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