The Temporality of Interlinear Translation: Kairos in the Persian Hölderlin

Kayvan Tahmasebian is a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham. He translates poetry and writes about the translational aspects of Iranian modernity. Currently he is working on a book manuscript entitled Modernity in Footnotes. With Rebecca Ruth Gould, he has co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism (2020).

Rebecca Ruth Gould is a writer and scholar of Iran and the Caucasus. Her books include Writers and Rebels: The Literatures of Insurgency in the Caucasus (Yale University Press, 2016), The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism (2020, co-edited with Kayvan Tahmasebian), The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), and Beautiful English (Dreich Books, 2021). She teaches at the University of Birmingham. Her website is https://rrgould.hcommons.org.