Ransford Professor of Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University New York. Her research focuses on the relationship between politics and art. Her main interest centers on questions of representation and power, particularly in the context of colonialism, orientalism, and nationalism, with a concentration on Palestine, Israel, Zionism as well as a broader interest in (post)colonial South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 
She has published numerous and is the writer of four single authored books. In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination (Princeton University Press, 2007), Visual Occupations: Vision and Visibility in a Conflict Zone (Duke University Press, 2015), Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future (Duke University Press, 2021),  and recently: My Father the Messiah: a Memoir (Duke University Press 2026). She is also the author of a bi-lingual (French, English) book about the Benin Artist Roméo Mivekannin (Editions Cécile Fakhoury, October 2025).
Professor Hochberg is currently writing a book about “Christian Zionism as World Order”.