Rebecca Ruth Gould is a writer, translator, and Distinguished Professor, Comparative Poetics & Global Politics at SOAS University of London.
Having lived for two years in Tbilisi, she returned to the United States where she started her PhD at Columbia University's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Department for Middle East, South Asian, & African Studies.
Gould has conducted fieldwork and research in numerous countries and regions, including Iran, Georgia, Syria, Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, India, Egypt, Israel, Palestine and Tajikistan.
"[10] Mary Childs has written that Gould's "interdisciplinary approach is essential to a more nuanced understanding of the cultures—Chechen and Daghestani, in particular—that tend to get tossed into a single Caucasus basket.
[12] In assessing the book, Fry wrote, "Gould writes with acuity and a remarkable sense of candour, unafraid to aim her critical lens back upon herself.
Her translations include The Death of Bagrat Zakharych and other stories by Vazha-Pshavela (2019), After Tomorrow the Days Disappear: Ghazals and Other Poems of Hasan Sijzi of Delhi (2016), and Prose of the Mountains: Tales of the Caucasus (2015).