Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts (CDTS, DSR)
Professor Seidman was the Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and will be the Jackman Humanities Professor at the University of Toronto, with a split appointment between the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Her first book, A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish, appeared in 1997; her second, Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation, in 2006. A third, The Marriage Plot, Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature, appeared in 2016.
Her fourth book, Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition,” was awarded a National Jewish Book Award in 2019.
A 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, Professor Seidman is presently working on a book about Freud’s Jewish Languages.
