Ethan Pack, PhD has been a lecturer at UCLA since 2019 and has taught courses on Israeli literature, television and film sponsored by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center. In Spring 2024, he taught a new, well-received course, “Israel and Palestine on Film,” in the department of Film & Television. Ethan’s research focuses on Hebrew and Arabic literature, Middle Eastern film and Postcolonial Studies. He is working on a book manuscript entitled Routes of Displacement: Jewish Exile and Visionary Poetics, which places the modern Jewish experience within larger inquiries into minority identity and migration between the Middle East and Europe. In addition to his teaching and research, as a fellow with the Center, Dr. Pack has moderated discussions with Israeli authors, playwrights and filmmakers at events and performances at UCLA and across Los Angeles.