Ophira Gamliel

Ophira Gamliel is senior lecturer theology and religious studies at University of Glasgow, UK. Ophira’s broad research interests vary from linguistics and philology – specializing on Sanskrit and Malayalam language and literature – to performance arts and folklore. 0phira Gamliel studied Indology and Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. For her post-doctoral studies, she spent a year in the Department of Malayalam and Kerala Studies at the University of Calicut in Kerala, India. She has worked as an adjunct lecturer, teaching fellow and language instructor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bar-Ilan University (Ramat-Gan, Israel).