Michael Weingrad, Ph.D. (University of Washington) Hebrew and Jewish Literatures

In January 2005, Michael Weingrad was appointed Portland State University’s first full-time professor of Judaic Studies. He received his B.A. from Yale and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2000-2003 he was the Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds, England, after which he was a Starr Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard.

Dr. Weingrad teaches and researches modern Jewish literature, history, and culture. He is currently working on a study of Hebrew literature written in the United States. He has published articles on Jewish literature in French, German, Hebrew, and other languages, in journals such as Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, Jewish Social Studies, History & Memory, and New German Critique. He is a member of the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at PSU, and helps promote Hebrew studies in the Department of Foreign Languages, and Literatures.

Contact Information
Phone: (503) 725-3085
E-mail: weingrad@pdx.edu