Daniel Waller is a postdoctoral researcher working on late antique ritual practices, with a particular focus on the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic magic bowls and the intersections between magic and narrative. He completed his PhD at the University of Groningen, while his earlier studies were in Film Theory and Religions & Theology (Trinity College, Dublin) and Hebrew & Aramaic Studies (University of Leiden). Other research interests include (the study of) Biblical Hebrew poetry and late antique demonologies.