Graduate Theological Union
Koret Professor of Jewish Culture and Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1995

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
M.A., University of California, Davis
B.A., Brooklyn College

Phone: 510/649-2482
E-mail: naomi@gtu.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Modern and Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Translation Studies; Translating the Bible
• Queer Studies
• Literary Theory
• Modern Hebrew Literature and the Midrashic Imagination; Myth
• Critical Theory

Selected Publications

• Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation (University of Chicago Press, 2006). 
• "Immaculate Translation: Textual Transmission, Sexual Fidelity and the Virgin Birth," in Gendering the Jewish Past, edited by Marc Lee Raphael, College of William and Mary Press, 2002.
• The chapter on Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature, in Feminist Readings of Jewish Texts (forthcoming from the University of California Press).
• "The Ghost of Queer Loves Past: Ansky's "Dybbuk" and the Sexual Transformation of Ashkenaz," in Queer Studies and the Jewish Question (forthcoming from Columbia University Press).
• "The Erotics of Jewish Tradition," in Studies in Contemporary Judaism (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).
• A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish (University of California Press, 1997).