MAJ Michael Weiss
Senior Instructor
Executive Officer to the Dean
English & World Languages
Dean's Staff
MAJ Mike Weiss was commissioned out of The University of Colorado Denver in 2012 as an Infantry Officer. MAJ Weiss served as a Mechanized Platoon Leader and Battalion Scout Platoon in 1-77 AR, 3ABCT, 1AD before transitioning to Military Intelligence. He then served as the Battalion Intelligence Officer in 1-66 AR, 3ABCT, 4ID.
He joined the West Point faculty in 2022 after completing his MA in Literature from the University of Missouri.
MA, Literature - University of Missouri
Graduate Certificate International Affairs - George Bush School of Public Policy TAMU.
BA, Political Science - University of Colorado, Denver
Research Interests
War Fiction, Modernism, Realism, Contemporary Literature
Current Research
I work at the intersection of Literary Realism and War fiction. Examining how Veteran authors describe combat, combatants, and non-combatants.
Selected Publications
Presentation at the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALCSW) titled: “The Officers Gaze in American War Film,” October 2023.
MA Thesis: “Beyond the Trauma Hero: The Discourse of American War Fiction from the Global War on Terror,” May 2022.