Ido Fuchs is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Affective Societies CRC and an Associated EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien. He recently submitted his dissertation on the poetics of return in Palestinian literature at the Program for Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University. In 2025, Fuchs was a Visiting Researcher at the Utrecht University Network for Environmental Humanities. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Interventions, Biography, Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies, and Praktyka Teoretyczna.

Research topic

• Atmosphere of Doomsday: Palestinian Cultural Production at the End of the World

Publications (selected) 

Fuchs, Ido. “Safiyya’s Return: Refusal, Hysteria, and Sumud in Ghassan Kanafani’s Returning to Haifa.” JMEWS: Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 22:3, (2026): (forthcoming).

Fuchs, Ido. “The Future of the Ghost: Absence, Haunting, and Returning in Contemporary Palestinian Cultural Production.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, (2025): online first.

Fuchs, Ido. “Writing Returns: Unsettling Borders and Resisting Fragmentation in the Work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and Sarah Ihmoud.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 47:2, (2024): 307–326; (online).

Fuchs, Ido. “The Doomsday Economy: Colonial Violence, Environmental Catastrophe, and Burning Tires in Palestine.” Praktyka Teoretyczna 51:1, (April 2024): 23–50; (online).