Vered Weiss

Vered Weiss is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University's Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities, and core faculty at The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel. She teaches world literature, cinema, and courses on Israeli culture and literature. Her research focuses on narrative empathy in marginalized characters and Israeli speculative fiction, with publications including Tracing Topographies (2017) and Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine (2024).

Her current work explores the interplay between spatial positioning of marginalized figures and narrative empathy in literature. Collaborative projects include a co-edited book on Israeli speculative fiction (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming). No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned in the text.

Advising and grants details are not provided here. She is affiliated with the College of Arts and Letters and contributes to interdisciplinary research at the intersection of cultural studies and literary analysis.