Keynote: An American Drifter in Israel-Palestine (W.J.T. Mitchell) (Part 2)

This is the second portion of W.J.T. Mitchell's keynote address entitled "An American Drifter in Israel-Palestine: Reflections on a Contested Landscape," delivered on November 9, 2018 within the Hagop Kevorkian Center's student-organized conference, "Seeing Landscape in Israel/Palestine." W.J.T. Mitchell is Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He served as Chair of the English Department from 1988 to 1991, and has been the editor of Critical Inquiry since 1978. He received his B.A. from Michigan State University in 1963, his M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1968. He taught in the English Department of Ohio State University from 1968-77 before moving to Chicago. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the recipient of the University of Chicago Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching, and the College Art Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for the Teaching of Art History.