Assaf Shelleg specializes in musics written by and about Jews, modern and contemporary art music, avantgarde, postcolonialism, ANT, and contemporaneity. Shelleg is the author of  the awards-winning book Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project (Oxford University Press, 2020). A German translation of Jewish Contiguities was published by Mohr Siebeck in 2017 (Musikalische Grenzgänge: Europäisch-jüdische Kunstmusik und der Soundtrack der israelischen Geschichte), and a German translation of Theological Satins is forthcoming with LIT Verlag. Shelleg is the current director of the Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel at the Hebrew University of the Jerusalem; he is a music contributor for Haaretz (since 2011), and served as a curator for the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (2020-22).
Shelleg’s third book, The State of Afterness, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.