Hephzibah Israel
Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences · University of Edinburgh
Quick answer: Hephzibah Israel is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at University of Edinburgh. Hephzibah Israel shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome enquiries from potential research students interested in any of the following areas: translation and religion, translation and history, postcolonial translations, literary translation, translation, power and intervention, South Asian language literatures (in particular, Tamil and Hindi) and their translation. My r
Research interests
My main area of research interest is in literary and sacred translations in the South Asian context. I have examined evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the modern Tamil literary and sacred landscapes. My study of the translations of the Tamil Bible has focused attention on it as an object of cultural transfer within intersecting religious, literary and social contexts. I am author of Religious Transactions in Colonial South India: Language, Translation and the Making of Protestant Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) where I have drawn attention to three key areas of translation conflict—identifying a sacred lexicon, caste and language registers, and competing literary genres—in the translation history of the Tamil Bible and in the articulation of Protestant identities.
Frequently asked questions
Is Hephzibah Israel hiring PhD students at University of Edinburgh?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Hephzibah Israel's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes. Areas of interest for supervision: I welcome enquiries from potential research students interested in any of the following areas: translation and religion, tran.
What does Hephzibah Israel research?
My main area of research interest is in literary and sacred translations in the South Asian context. I have examined evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the modern Tamil literary and sacred landscapes. My study of the translations of the Tamil Bible has focused attention o
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