Gil Hochberg

Gil Hochberg is the Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University. His work critically engages intersections of psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, nationalism, gender, and sexuality. He specializes in Francophone North African literature, Palestinian literature, Israeli cinema, and Mediterranean cultural studies. Hochberg's research interrogates the entangled histories of Jews and Arabs in modern Middle Eastern cultural production.

Key publications include In Spite of Partition (2007), analyzing Jewish-Arab literary relations, and Visual Occupations (2015), examining visual politics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His current project explores art, archives, and historical knowledge production. Hochberg frequently publishes on decolonial theory, queer politics, and the ethical dimensions of cultural representation in conflict zones.

His work addresses urgent contemporary issues like refugee heritage, the global rise of Christian Zionism, and the ethical implications of cultural memory. Through interdisciplinary approaches, he critiques dominant narratives around nationalism, identity, and power structures in the Middle East.