hoffman was the film critic for the "jerusalem post" from 1993 to 2000 and the "american prospect" from 2000 to 2002. her essays and criticism have appeared in "the nation," the "washington post," the "times literary supplement," "raritan," "bookforum," the "boston globe", "new york newsday," "tin house," and on the world service of the bbc. she is one of the founders and editors of ibis editions, a small, jerusalem-based press that publishes the literature of the levant. hoffman has been a visiting professor at wesleyan university and middlebury college, and in 2009 was the franke fellow at yale’s whitney humanities center. during the summer of 2011 she was the distinguished writer in non-fiction at new york university’s mcghee school. she now divides her time between jerusalem and new haven.