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? Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2017.
Blood: A Critique of Christianity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
Semites: Race, Religion, Literature. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.
The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.
“Our Place in Al-Andalus”: Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature in Arab Jewish Letters. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.
Edited
Jacques Derrida. Acts of Religion, edited by Gil Anidjar. England: Routledge, 2002.
Translated
Szendy, Peter. Prophecies of Leviathan. Reading Past Melville, New York: Fordham University Press, 2010.
Nichanian, Marc. The Historiographic Perversion, New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Recent Essays
“Dalāla, Dialogue (Maimonides, Bouteldja, and Us),” Journal of Levantine Studies, vol. 9, no. 1 (2019): pp. 57-70.
“On the Political History of Destruction,” Re-Orient, vol. 4, no. 2 (2019): pp. 144-165.
“What Was Enlightenment?” Critical Research on Religion, vol. 7, no. 2 (2019): pp. 173-181.
“Muslims (Shoah, Nakba).” The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History, edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg. New York: Columbia University Press (2018): pp. 66-78.