Gil Z. Hochberg is the Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at
Columbia University
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. She has written two academic books. ''Visual Occupations: Vision and Visibility in a Conflict Zone'' (2015) examines the politics of visibility in Palestine/Israel through film, art and photography. Her first book, ''In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs and the Limits of Separatist Imagination'' (2007), focuses on literary works that complicate binary formulations of identity in Palestine/Israel and that foreground complex and fraught histories in common. She previously taught for 15 years at
UCLA
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Her statements on Israel were criticized by Karys Rhea in ''
The Tower (magazine)''.
Bibliography
* ''In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination'' (
Princeton University Press
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, 2007)
* ''Visual Occupations: Vision and Visibility in a Conflict Zone'' (
Duke University Press
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, 2015)
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Columbia University faculty
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