Gil Z. Hochberg is the Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University. She has written three academic books: Becoming Palestine: Towards an Archival Imagination of The Future (2021), Visual Occupations: Vision and Visibility in a Conflict Zone (2015), and In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs and the Limits of Separatist Imagination (2007) as well as several art catalogs. She previously taught for 15 years at UCLA. Her latest book is My Father, the Messiah: a Memoir (2026).
Her statements on Israel were criticized by Karys Rhea in The Tower (magazine).