Scholar. translator. educator.
Dr Hana Morgenstern is Associate Professor in Postcolonial and Middle Eastern Literature at Cambridge University and a Fellow at Newnham College. She is a scholar of Middle Eastern literature and cultural histories of the Left, with a specialisation in Palestine and Israel, including Jewish, Hebrew, Palestinian and Arabic literatures and literary cultures.
Her recently released book, Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Anticolonial Literature and Radical Print (EUP 2026), reconstructs a history of anticolonial literary and cultural collaborations between Palestinians and Arab Jews, from the heyday of decolonization in the 1950s to the present era.
Published alongside Cultural Co-Resistance is the companion anthology A People’s Literature of Israel/Palestine: Anticolonial and Socialist Writing, which presents the Arabic-language fiction, essays and poetry of this early anticolonial circle in English translation for the first time.
Morgenstern is co-founder and co-investigator of Revolutionary Papers: a transnational research collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of anticolonial and anti-imperial production. She is also co-founder of Archives of the Disappeared, an interdisciplinary research initiative for the study of communities, social movements, spaces, literatures and cultures that have been destroyed through acts of political repression and mass violence.
