Gil Z. Hochberg

Institution: Columbia University

With a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (UC Berkeley 2002), her early work has focused on colonial and postcolonial literatures In Hebrew, Arabic and French. Her later work shifted to visual arts, primarily cinema, video art, photography and painting. Her main interest centers on questions of representation and power, particularly in the context of  colonialism, orientalism, and nationalism, with a concentration on Palestine, Israel, Zionism. She has published numerous essays about North African, Palestinian, and Hebrew literature and cinema, queer studies, photography, and anti-colonial resistance across gender, race and sexual minorities. She is also the editor of two special volumes: “Queer Politics and the Question of Palestine” (GLQ 2010), and Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography (coedited with Tina Campt, Marianne Hirsch, Gil Hochberg and Brian Wallis), 2020. She is the writer of four single authored books. Her first book, In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination (Princeton University Press, 2007); Visual Occupations: Vision and Visibility in a Conflict Zone (Duke University Press, 2015); Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future (Duke University Press, 2021), and her forthcoming creative nonfiction:  My Father the Messiah: a Memoir (Duke University Press 2026).