Brenda Deen Schildgen

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Brenda Deen Schildgen is a distinguished professor emerita [1] and former chair of comparative literature at the UC Davis specializing in the European Middle Ages, the Bible as Literature, Dante, the relationship between history and fiction, and Jewish, Christian, and Moslem relations in the European Middle Ages. [2] [3]

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Brenda Deen Schildgen was born to the family of naturalized immigrants to Great Britain, Anna Friedman and Nasir Din, Jewish mother and Muslim father, married in London in 1942. [4]

Education

Deen Schildgen received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Indiana University Bloomington. Her thesis was entitled The TheophilusLegend: Three Versions. [5] M.A., Comparative Literature, Indiana University Bloomington; M.A., Religious Studies, 1989 (thesis: "Habits of the mind: prejudice and ideology in the reading of the Gospel of Mark" [6] ), University of San Francisco; B.A., English and French, University of Wisconsin–Madison. [2]

Books

She is also the co-editor of several books. [7]

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 Brenda Deen Schildgen receives the Helen and Howard Marraro Prize for "Dante and Violence"
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  4. ↑ Paul Strohm, Ripe for Conversion, book review, London Review of Books, Volume 24 Number 13, 2002
  5. ↑ Schildgen, Brenda Deen (1969.). The Theophilus legend: three versions.{{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ↑ Habits of the mind : prejudice and ideology in the reading of the Gospel of Mark
  7. 1 2 Brenda Deen Schildgen
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