Naomi Seidman is the Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts at the University of Toronto, with appointments in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. She was previously the Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2016.

She is the author of five books: Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation; A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish; The Marriage Plot: or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature; Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition, which won the Barbara Dobkin National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies in 2019; and most recently Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish (Stanford University Press, 2024). Her podcast on leaving the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world, Heretic in the House, was recently released by the Shalom Hartman Institute.