Mikhal Dekel

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Mikhal Dekel is an Israeli-born author and professor of literature based in the United States, specializing in the theory of migrations, historical memoir, representations of trauma, and the overlap between law and literature. She teaches English and Comparative Literature at City College New York (CCNY) and the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, and directs CCNY's Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Arts Dekel is the author of Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey, The Universal Jew: Masculinity, Modernity and the Zionist Movement, and the Hebrew monograph Oedipus be-Kishinev (Oedipus in Kishinev). Dekel has also published articles on topics such as George Eliot's Hebrew translations, tragedy and revenge in Hebrew literature, and autism and the English novel. Her scholarly work has received support from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Mellon Foundation, and the Lady Davis Foundation, among others. Mikhal Dekel was born in Haifa, Israel, to Hannan and Zipora Dekel (Teitel). As an Israeli citizen, Mikhal Dekel completed her mandatory military service and went on to earn an L.L.B. from Tel Aviv University's Buchmann School of Law and intern at the Tel Aviv State Attorney's Office. Dekel is a member of the Israel Bar Association. She moved to New York and entered a graduate program in English at the City College of New York. She then completed a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Columbia University. In 2019, Dekel published Tehran Children, which reconstructs her father Hannan's journey as a child refugee fleeing Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.