Gabriel Ben-Zion Abramovich - NMU English

• Ph.D., Literature and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Gabriel Ben-Zion Abramovich teaches world literature and film studies, with a focus on Israeli and Turkish literature, culture, and society. He directs the Israel Initiative at the Telos–Paul Piccone Institute and is a Research Fellow in Israel Studies at Brandeis University.

He has taught as visiting faculty at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Program in Philosophy and Religions), Bilkent University (Program in Civilizations, Cultures, and Ideas), Shandong University, the University of the Andes (Department of Cultural Studies), and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has also served as a visiting researcher at Tel Aviv University (School of Political Science, Government, and International Relations), and has held research appointments at the Institute for National Security Studies, the University of Haifa, and Yad Vashem.

He was a founding associate editor of Politics and Culture and a longtime advisory editor of Fathom, a journal on Middle East affairs. His essays, interviews, and translations have appeared in The American Interest, The American Mind, Critical Inquiry, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Israel Studies, The Jerusalem Post, Perspectives on Political Science, Rethinking History, Tablet, Telos, and elsewhere.