Gil Anidjar is Professor in the Departments of Religion and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS).
Trained
Comparative Literature, Religious Studies, Jewish Thought
Recent Courses
“Theory and Methods,” “Reading (In Theory),” “Vampires"
Publications
Books
Qu’appelle-t-on Destruction? Heidegger, Derrida (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2017)
Blood: a Critique of Christianity (Columbia UP, 2014)
Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (Stanford UP, 2008)
The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (Stanford UP, 2003)
‘Our Place in al-Andalus’: Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters (Stanford UP, 2002);
Edited
Jacques Derrida, Acts of Religion (Routledge, 2002)
Translated
Peter Szendy, Prophecies of Leviathan. Reading Past Melville (Fordham UP, 2010)
Marc Nichanian, The Historiographic Perversion (Columbia UP, 2009)
Recent Essays
“Dalāla, Dialogue (Maimonides, Bouteldja, and Us),” Journal of Levantine Studies 9:1 (Summer 2019) 57-70.
“On the Political History of Destruction,” Re-Orient 4:2 (2019) 144-165.
“What Was Enlightenment?” Critical Research on Religion 7:2 (2019) 173-181 (Symposium on Irfan Ahmad’s Religion as Critique).
“Muslims (Shoah, Nakba)” in The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History, Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg, eds. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018) 66-78.