Annabel Teh Gallop

Who is Annabel Teh Gallop?

Dr. Annabel Teh Gallop is the Head, Curator for Indonesian and Malay in the department of the South and Southeast Asia section at the British Library, London. She was also one of the Editorial board members of the journal 'Indonesia and the Malay World', based at SOAS, University of London; Committee member of the Association of South East Asian Studies in the UK. Her main research interests are in Malay manuscripts, letters, documents and seals, and the book arts of Islamic Southeast Asia. She is also interested in the manuscript culture of Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Her PhD dissertation was entitled "Malay seal inscriptions: a study in Islamic epigraphy from Southeast Asia". She is currently involved in the publication of a catalogue of Malay seals.

Dr. Annabel, in association with Bernard Arps, who is a lecturer in Indonesian and Javanese at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, has contributed a ground-breaking book on Indonesian art, under the name Golden Letters: Writing Traditions of Indonesia and Surat Emas: Budaya Tulis di Indonesia.