About Me — Rebecca Ruth Gould

Rebecca Ruth Gould, PhD
About Me Stories
7 min readJan 4, 2021

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“Pessimism of the Intellect. Optimism of the Will” (Antonio Gramsci)

Rebecca Ruth Gould in Isfahan (Iran) in 2016. Photo by the author.

Hello! Welcome to this short summary of myself. I define myself as a writer, reader, political thinker, translator, teacher, lover of staying up late at night, of wandering through cities and watching the stars, coffee, documentary films, medieval ruins, and poetry in languages other than my own. My reading ranges across novels (Fyodor…

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Rebecca Ruth Gould, PhD
About Me Stories

Poetry & politics. Free Palestine 🇵🇸. Caucasus & Iran. Writer, Educator, Translator & Editor. rrgould.hcommons.org https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/rebecca-gould