Gil Hochberg

Gil Z. Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University and Chair of the department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies (MESAAS). Her research focuses on the intersections among psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, nationalism, gender and sexuality. She is the author of three books, co-editor of two and has published numerous essays on the politics of art in the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Her latest book, Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future (Duke University Press, 2021), is winner of the 2022 René Wellek Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association.

In Paris, Hochberg plans to immerse herself in researching the complex intersections of immigration, colonial history, and cultural identity in France, drawing from past exhibitions such as “Jews and Muslims: From Colonial France to the Present Day” at the Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration.