Rebecca Gould CV
Rebecca Gould Assistant Professor, Literature Division of Humanities Yale-NUS College RESEARCH INTERESTS Comparative literature (Persian, Russophone, Arabic), poetics, Islamic legal and rhetorical theory, Islamic Caucasus, methodologies of comparison, political theory, political geography, translation, postcoloniality EMPLOYMENT 2012- Assistant Professor, Literature, Yale-NUS College. EDUCATION 2011 Ph.D. Columbia University (distinction), Institute for Comparative Literature and Society & Middle East, South Asian, & African Studies, Dissertation: The Political Aesthetic of the Medieval Persian Prison Poem, 1100-1200. 2003 M.A. Graduate Center, City University of New York. Comparative Literature (Persian, Russian, & Anglophone Literatures). 1999 B.A. University of California, Berkeley (distinction in general scholarship; departmental citation for outstanding undergraduate accomplishment). Comparative Literature and Slavic. AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2014-5 Research Grant, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation 2014-5 Senior Fellowship, Central European University, Institute for Advanced Study 2014-16 Visiting Fellowship, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Heidelberg (twelve-month fellowship, to be used between 2014 and 2016) 2011-16 Polonsky Fellow, Van Leer Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem (in residence only for 2011-12) 2011 Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, American Historical Association 2011-15 Harper-Schmidt Fellowship in the Humanities,
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