A Conversation with Gil Hochberg on "Queer Politics and the Question of Palestine"

Abstract

An Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA, Gil Hochberg received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on the intersections of trauma studies, psychoanalysis, race theory, and postcolonial theory, particularly in the context of contemporary Israel and Palestine as well as North Africa. Professor Hochberg has published essays on a wide range of issues including Francophone North African literature, Palestinian literature, gender and nationalism, and cultural memory and immigration, as well as exile and literary production. 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. She recently talked with Hoda El Shakry, a doctoral student in Department of the Comparative Literature at UCLA, about her current projects, including a special issue of GLQ: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.