Gil Hochberg
Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies, Chair MESAAS, Columbia University
Gil Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination (2007), on the complex relationship between the signifiers “Arab” and “Jew” in contemporary Jewish and Arab literatures, and Visual Occupations: Vision and Visibility in a Conflict Zone (2015), on the visual politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her research focuses on the intersections among psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, nationalism, gender and sexuality, with articles on Francophone North African, Palestinian, and Hebrew literature, the modern Levant, gender and nationalism, cultural memory and immigration, memory and gender, Israeli and Palestinian cinema, Mediterraneanism, and trauma and narrative. She is currently writing a book on art, archives and the production of historical knowledge.
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