Since Gal Gvili was awarded the Polonsky Fellowship, she has continued for her Masters at the East Asian Studies Department at Hebrew University, from where she graduated in 2006. Between 2007-2008, with the support of the Chinese Government Ministry of Culture Scholarship, Gal spent a year at Peking University studying Chinese modern literature and teaching spoken Hebrew. In fall of 2008, Gal began her PhD studies at Columbia University in New York City, where she is a student of modern Chinese literature in the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, as well as a fellow at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. In 2011-2012 Gal was granted a Mellon Columbia Travel grant enabling her to conduct dissertation research in Beijing China, where she also co-organized a dissertation workshop at Tsinghua University and collaborated with the Lu Xun museum in contributing to the Lu Xun Books in Foreign Languages Catalog. In 2012, Gal published the following essays: 2012. “Ling yi zhong xieshizhuyi: Mao Dun yu youtai zongjiao, ziranzhuyi ji shengming wenti”(Alternative Realism: Judaism, Naturalism and the Question of Life in the Writings of Mao Dun). Han Yuyan Wenxue Yanjiu 3(1): 19-28. ; 2012. “Lu Xun wai wen cang shu ti yao: hei nü qiu shen ji” (Lu Xun Foreign Books Catalogue: The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God) Lu xun yan jiu yue kan3: 8-10.  Gal is currently back in New York city, writing her dissertation, titled: "Salvation of Life: National Theology and Modern Chinese Literature 1911-1949."