Michael Weingrad

Michael Weingrad
Professor of Judaic Studies

Contact:
(503) 725-3085
weingrad@pdx.edu
Office: UCB 465K

Courses Taught:

ENG 330U: Jewish & Israeli Literature
ENG 306U: Fantasy Literature
JST 431: The Jewish Graphic Novel in Israel and France

Past courses include:
FILM 384: David Mamet
FILM 384: Divorce in American Film
FILM 384: Jewish American Experience in Film

About

Professor Michael Weingrad is passionate about modern Jewish culture, including literature, politics, and film. He is the author of two books on modern Hebrew literature, translator of the Israeli graphic novel Judessey, co-editor of a special issue in English translation of the Israeli poetry and art journal Yehee, and a frequent contributor to the Jewish Review of Books and Mosaic magazine. His novel of the 1980s in verse, Eugene Nadelman, was published by Paul Dry Books in 2024. He is currently working on a book about Jews and fantasy literature and a study of divorce in American film. He created and teaches the Perelandra Scholars Program, a series of high-level humanities courses for 11th and 12th graders. He is happiest in a Jerusalem café.
 

Degrees

Ph.D. English, University of Washington, Seattle 1999
M.A. English, University of Washington, Seattle 1993
B.A. English, Yale University, New Haven 1990
 

Research Interests

Modern Jewish literature, politics, film
Hebrew and Israeli literature and culture
Poetry and translation
American film
Fantasy literature
 

Publications

Eugene Nadelman: A Tale of the 1980s in Verse (Paul Dry Books, 2024)

Yehee Issue 5: Translated (2024)

Judessey: A Graphic Novel of the Holocaust (Wicked Son Books, 2024)

Letters to America: Selected Poems of Reuven Ben-Yosef

American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States

Websites

Investigations and Fantasies: On Jews and Fantasy Literature

Screen Splits: Divorce and American Film

Perelandra Scholars Program