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]
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]
2022: Helen and Howard Marraro Prize for Dante and Violence; award quotation: "This persuasive, well-written, and meticulously researched work explores how Dante’s Commedia Divina approached the impact of violence, broadly conceived from warfare to forced marriage, on the household, especially women, 'civic and political domains,' and on 'the divine or cosmic realm.'"[1]
2008: University of California, Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement[2][3]
1999: recipient of a Best Academic Book Choice award for Power and Prejudice[7]
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.