Liel Leibovitz is a visiting assistant professor at NYU Steinhardt focusing primarily on video game and interactive media research and theory. He is a member of the advisory board of the New York chapter of the Digital Games Research Association, a founding member of the NYU Faculty Council on Games, and a member of the academic advisory board of the American Jewish Historical Society. He is also the author or co-author of several books, including, The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election, co-written with Todd Gitlin, Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen (W. W. Horton &Co., 2014) as well as contributor to newspapers and magazines such as the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Dissent, and Tablet.
