Gil Hochberg

Bio

Gil Hochberg is the Ransford Professor of Hebrew, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the intersections among postcolonial theory, visual studies, race and gender and sexuality. She has published essays on a wide range of issues including: Palestinian and Israeli literatures, film and photography, gender and nationalism, and Jews and Muslim in the broader context of modernity particularly under European colonialism. Her first book, In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination (Princeton University Press, 2007), examines the complex relationship between the signifiers “Arab” and “Jew” in contemporary Jewish and Arab literatures since 1948. Her more recent book, Visual Occupations: Vision and Visibility in a Conflict Zone (Duke University Press, 2015), is a study of the visual politics of Israeli settler colonialism. In 2010, she edited a special volume of GLQ (Gay and Lesbian Quarterly) about queer politics and the question of Palestine. She is currently writing a book, entitled Becoming Palestine about archives, art, and historical potentiality.