I write about poetry, politics, translation, Iran, Islam, the Caucasus & Palestine. I grew up in the US, and have lived and worked in Tbilisi, Berlin, Palestine, Budapest, Singapore, and Bristol (UK). Currently, I am Distinguished Professor of Comparative Poetics and Global Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. My books include Erasing Palestine (2023), The Persian Prison Poem (2021), The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism (2020), and Writers and Rebels: The Literatures of Insurgency in the Caucasus (2016). My short story collection Strangers in Love has been published in Arabic translation, and my other works have been translated into Persian, Chinese, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Polish, and Portuguese. I have translated Persian classical and modern poetry (most often in collaboration with Iranian poet Kayvan Tahmasebian) as well as Georgian and Russian poetry and prose.

My website is: https://rrgould.hcommons.org/

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