He is Professor of English and General & Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
[2] Zamir is the author of the 2006 book Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama[3][4] and the 2007 book Ethics & the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation,[5][6][7] both published by Princeton University Press.
His 2014 book Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self was published by the University of Michigan Press.
[8][9][10] In 2018, he published both the monograph Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost[11][12][13] and the edited collection Shakespeare's Hamlet: Philosophical Perspectives with Oxford University Press,[14] and in 2020 he published Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice with Routledge.
[15] While most contemporary scholars involved with animal ethics have written in favour of veganism, Zamir however has defended vegetarianism.