Israel, Nico

Associate Professor
1225HW / Office Hour:
(212) 772-5111
nisrael@hunter.cuny.edu

Nico Israel received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1995.

His areas of expertise include twentieth century British, Irish, American, and European literature, colonial and post-colonial literature and theory, literary and critical theory, and art history and visual culture. His first book, Outlandish: Writing between Exile and Diaspora, was published by Stanford University Press in 2000. He has published academic essays on the novelists Joseph Conrad and Salman Rushdie, the philosopher Theodor Adorno, and the poet Wallace Stevens; book reviews on questions concerning modernism and critical theory; and over fifty catalogue essays, previews and reviews for contemporary art exhibitions. He is a frequent contributor to Artforum International magazine.

His next book project, tentatively titled "Globalization and Trauma," explores intersections among literature, contemporary art and critical theory in the post-1945 period.

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