Rebecca Ruth Gould, "Strangers" (Serving House Books, 2025)

In this episode, Rebecca Ruth Gould,

Distinguished Professor, Comparative Poetics & Global Politics at

SOAS University of London, and University of Puerto Rico professors Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Cora Monroe González, discuss writing, travel, bilingualism, translation, defamiliarization and the power of language as facets of Gould’s book Strangers: Stories (Serving House Books, 2025).

Nuevos Horizontes is the podcast of the Instituto Nuevos Horizontes at the Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayagüez.

In Stranger: Stories, Rebecca Ruth Gould uses ink and paper to describe the power of art, loss, love, distance, and words themselves.Find Rebecca Ruth Gould on substack.

Quotes, books, places, and scholars mentioned in this conversation:

Alcatraz Restaurant in Mayagüez.

Gabriel García Márquez, Doce cuentos peregrinos.

Aurora Levins Morales, “Hija de las Américas.”

Heriberto Yépez, Transnational Battlefield.

Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.

Roberto Bolaño, Cuentos completos.