Hephzibah Israel is a Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies, University of Edinburgh. Her research interests lie in the intersections between translation, religion, history, and postcolonial studies. She authored Religious Transactions in Colonial South India: Language, Translation and the Making of Protestant Identity (2011) and has edited the Routledge Handbook of Translation and Religion (forthcoming, 2023). She has guest edited (with Matthias Frenz) a special issue on ‘Religion and Translation’ (2019) for the journal Religion; a special section on Indian traditions of life-writing on religious conversion (2018) for the journal South Asia (with John Zavos) and a special issue entitled ‘Translation in India: Multilingual practices and cultural histories of texts’ (2021) for Translation Studies. She is chair of the editorial board of the book series, Approaches to Translation Studies (Brill) and co-edits the book series, Creative, Social and Transnational Perspectives on Translation (Routledge).