Nurit Buchweitz

Nurit Buchweitz (Hebrew: נורית בוכויץ) is the Dean of the Faculty of Society and Culture at Beit Berl College in Israel, where she has lectured since 1994 in the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, and the English department.

Education Buchweitz earned her BA and MA from Tel Aviv University in Poetics and General Literature. Buchweitz completed her Ph.D. in 2001 in Comparative Literature at School of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University. She was awarded the Dov Sadan Foundation Prize for Modern Hebrew Literature Excellence in Dissertation Research at Tel Aviv University. Additionally, she holds a teaching certificate from the School of Education at Tel Aviv University. as well as children and youth literature and postmodernist Israeli poetry.

Buchweitz has lectured internationally and was a visiting professor in Ludwigsburg University of Education in Germany and Pedagogical University of Cracow in Poland. Buchweitz was co-editor of Mifgeshey Tarbut (Cultural Encounters), a Hebrew academic journal dedicated to multi- and inter-cultural research.

Publications Buchweitz is the author or editor of five books and more than 40 journal articles and book chapters. Intimate Relationships in Literature, Cinema and the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan 2017 (with Gilad Padva)