Brenda Deen Schildgen Born: London, England (British-Indian; British subject/u.s. citizen)

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1 Résumé Brenda Deen Schildgen Born: London, England (British-Indian; British subject/u.s. citizen) CURRENT AND PAST POSITIONS University of California, Davis Distinguished Professor, Comparative Literature, 2013 Full Professor, Comparative Literature, UC Davis, 2002 Chair, Comparative Literature Department, UC Davis, Interim Director, University Writing Program, UC Davis, Lecturer, Comparative Literature, UC Davis, (Teaching Assistant Supervisor , ) University of San Francisco Assistant and Associate Dean, Assistant Professor, English EDUCATION B.A. English and French, University of Wisconsin, 1965 M.A., PhD. Comparative Literature, Indiana University, 1969, 1972 Dissertation: Chaucer s Canterbury Tales and Juan Ruiz Libro de Buen Amor M.A. Religious Studies, University of San Francisco, 1989 Fields of Study European Middle Ages; Dante; Chaucer; Bible as Literature; Religion and Literature; Fairy Tales and Fables, medievalism AWARD AND HONORS UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement ($40,000 award), 2008 Bogliasco Foundation Residency Fellowship, March 2007 National Humanities Center Research Fellowship, Davis Humanities Institute Research Fellowship, Winter Quarter 2004 PEW Charitable Funds Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, Other awards Fifteen University Instructional Improvement Program or Teaching Assistant Development Program Support Grants ( ) Academic Senate New Research Initiative Grant Outstanding Teacher, Academic Federation, UC Davis 1999 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book 1989 First Prize, College Theology Society National Award for Best Masters Thesis

2 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institutes grants, 1988, 1989, 1991 National Endowment for the Humanities Institutional Grant for the Master of Arts in Writing Program ($75,000), University of San Francisco, Davis Humanities Institute co-sponsorship funds for conferences. PUBLICATIONS Books 2012 Divine Providence A History: Bible, Virgil, Orosius, Augustine and Dante. New York: Continuum, (Written with the support of a PEW Grant, ) Italian translation of Dante and the Orient. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2002, published by Salerno Editrice Arabic translation of Dante and the Orient. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2002 published by The National Center for Translation, the Ministry of Culture, Egypt Heritage or Heresy: Destruction and Preservation of Religious Art and Architecture in Europe. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan Medieval Readings of Romans, co-edited with Peter Hawkins and William Campbell in the series Romans Through History and Cultures. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark International Other Renaissances, a co-edited collection of essays with Zhou Gang and Sander Gilman. Palgrave/Macmillan Decameron and The Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question, co-editor with Leonard Michael Koff of a collection of essays. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Dante and the Orient. University of Illinois Press (Written with the support of an NEH grant) Pagans, Tartars, Jews, and Moslems in Chaucer s Canterbury Tales. University of Florida Press Power and Prejudice: Reception of the Gospel of Mark. Wayne State University Press. (Choice award for Best Academic Book, 1999) Crisis and Continuity: Time in the Gospel of Mark. Sheffield Academic Press, UK The Rhetoric Canon: Plato to Erasmus. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. SELECTED ARTICLES 72 peer-reviewed articles (includes 15 book reviews) 199l Dante s Neologisms in the Paradiso and the Latin Rhetorical Tradition, Dante Studies (1989): Dante s tëodia and John s alto preconio in Canto XXVI, Paradiso, Stanford Italian Review: Petrarch s Defense of Secular Letters, the Latin Fathers, and Ancient Roman Rhetoric, Rhetorica: Jerome s Prefaces to the Bible and The Canterbury Tales, Studies in the Age of Chaucer: A Blind Promise: Mark s Retrieval of Esther, Poetics Today: Augustine s Answer to Jacques Derrida in the De Doctrina Christiana, New Literary History:

3 Looking East: Dante and the Indus, Dante Studies: Wonders on the Border: Precious Stones in the Comedy, Dante Studies: The Gospel of Mark as Myth, in Through a Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination (New York: Fordham University Press): Francesco Petrarca and Christian Antiquity, Rivista di Studi Italiani: Overcoming Augustinian Dichotomies in Defense of the Laurel in Canzoni of the Rime sparse, Modern Language Notes: The Gospel of Mark as Picaresque Novella, Genre (1996): Dante and the Crusades," Dante Studies (1998): Boethius and the Consolation of Literature in Boccaccio s Decameron and Chaucer s Canterbury Tales, in The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales "Dante e la Crociata, Verbum (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2001), "Dante's Utopian Political Vision, the Roman Empire, and the Salvation of Pagans," Annali d Italianistica. "Islam in Boccaccio s Decameron and Chaucer s Canterbury Tales," in Alexander's Revenge, ed. Jon Ma.Asgeirsson and Nancy van Deusen (Iceland: University of Iceland Press), Allegory, Time, and Space in the Mi c raj and its Commentary Tradition, Allegorica "'Ceci Tuera Cela': Notre-Dame de Paris and the Murder of Monuments," Variations Dante in India: Sri Aurobindo and Savitri, Dante Studies No Bounds to the Sympathetic Imagination in J.M. Coetzee s Elizabeth Costello, Critical Comparative Studies 2: The Legacy of Erich Auerbach and Edward Said: Philology and History in the Future of Comparative Literature, Journal for Comparative and General Literature "Sri Aurobindo: Renaissance in India and the Italian Renaissance," in Other Renaissances "Female Monasticism in the Twelfth Century: Peter Abelard, Heloise, and Paul s Letter to the Romans," in Reception of Paul's Letter to the Romans in the Middle Ages Middle Eastern Apocalyptic Traditions in Dante's La Divina Commedia and Mohammed's Mi c raj or night journey, at Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History Conversion: επιστροφε and µετανοια in the Gospel of Mark. Journal of Jewish History 23: Philosophers, Theologians, and the Islamic Legacy in Dante: Inferno 4 versus Paradiso 4, for Special Issue of Dante Studies dedicated to Dante and Islam, ed. Jan Ziolkowski Poetry and Theology in the Fourteenth Century, Religion and Literature Rept. The East in the Latin World, from Dante and the Orient, in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Volume 115 (CMLC-115), ed. Jelena Krstovic (December, 2009), inhardcover, e-book, and dial-up on-line version Animals, Poetry and Philosophy, and Dante's Commedia, Modern Philology Rept. Dante and the Crusades, from Dante and the Orient, in Poetry Criticism Gabriele Paleotti and the Discorso intorno alle imagini sacre e profane, in Sacred Possessions, ed. Sybille Ebert-Schifferer and Gail Feigenbaum (Getty Research Institute,

4 2010), based on the conference Sacred Possessions? Italy and Collecting Religious Art, , co-organized by the Bibliotheca Hertziana and the Getty Research Institute (GRI), and held at the American Academy in Rome, June 19-21, Thomas More and the Defense of Images in the Dialogue Concerning Heresies, Moreana 47 (Dec., 2010), Dante for contemporary satire: Sean Meredith s Dante s Inferno and Jean-Luc Godard s Notre Musique, Rivista di Studi Italiani Reception of Dante in Nineteenth-Century India, in Dante in the "Long" 19th century ( ), ed. Aida Audeh and Nick Havely (Oxford University Press) Reception, Elegy, and Eco-Awareness:Trees in Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer. Journal of Comparative Literature. Selected Invited Talks (Approximately 80 invited or conference talks ) 2009, February 28, Dante s Commedia, at Dante and the Making of a Modern Author, Stanford Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford Humanities Center. 2009, January 30, Fairy Tales and the Arts, aired on Insight, KXJZ, Capital Public Radio, Sacramento. 2008, November 7-8, Making the French Nation: Liberating France, Abbé Grégoire, and the Patrimony of the Middle Ages at Medievalism, Colonialism, Nationalism: A Symposium, at UC, Riverside (Sponsored Mellon Workshop on Medieval Cultures). 2008, October 10-12, Christian Poetics: Dante, Prophecy, and the Urgency of Time, Plenary Address at Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Villanova University. 2008, March Dante in India, at Tra Amici: A Symposium in Honor of Giuseppe Mazzotta, Mary Washington University, Fredericksburg, VA. 2007, June, Gabriele Paleotti and the Discorso intorno alle imagini sacre e profane at Sacred Possessions Italy and Collecting Religious Art, American Academy in Rome (sponsored by The Getty Research Institute and The Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck- Institut für Kuntsgeschichte, Rome. 2004, May, Dante, the Middle East, and India, Dante Society of America, annual meeting, Harvard Deschamps Ballade to Chaucer and Late Medieval Humanism. Medieval Studies Forum, University of California, Berkeley. 2001, May, "Chaucer, Pagan Philosophy, and the Ethical Debate in the Canterbury Tales," UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Medieval History Seminar, Huntington Library. TEACHING UC Davis, Summer Abroad, Florence, (Every summer teach Renaissance Florence and the Birth of Modern Europe) 2002, Professor, Comparative Literature, U.C., Davis Courses taught: Comp. Lit: Medieval Literature, Great Books (Ancient World; Middle Ages to Enlightenment; the Modern Crisis); Myths and Legends; Literature of the Indian Sub-Continent; Fairy Tales, Fables, and Parables; African Literature; Colonial and Postcolonial Literature; History and Literature; Teaching Internship for Graduate Students; Dante. Graduate courses in Dante; Allegory; Reception

5 of Virgil; Augustinian Tradition. English: Bible as Literature; Chaucer. Italian: Dante, Survey of Italian Literature Humanities: Dante Religious Studies: Myth, Ritual, and Symbol Medieval Studies: The High Middle Ages: 1066-Dante; 14th-15th Centuries; Judaism, Islam, and Christianity in the Middle Ages. Davis Honors Challenge Program: 1998 (Comp. Lit. 2); 2001 (Comp. Lit. 1); 2002 (Comp. Lit. 2); 2008 (Comp. Lit. 6 (honors); 2009, 2010, Comp. Lit. 5 (honors) Freshman Seminar: Non-Violence; Apocalyptic Novels; Science and Religion. ADMINISTRATION Director and Chair, Comparative Literature Interim Director, University Writing Program, UC, Davis Project Director, $75,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Institutional Grant supporting the M.A. in Writing, U.S.F Assistant Dean, Arts and Sciences, University of San Francisco Founder and Director, Masters of Arts in Writing Program, University of San Francisco Director, Expository Writing Program, Arts and Sciences; Writing Program, College of Professional Studies, University of San Francisco. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE NEH external consultant to University of Nevada, Reno; Councilor Dante Society of America; Secretary and Editor of Chronica, Medieval Association of the Pacific; numerous peer-reviews for faculty appointments and promotion (Yale, Hong Kong University, Michigan, Pomona, Santa Clara University, Vanderbilt); manuscript reviews for University of Toronto Press, University of Florida Press, MLA, Fordham University Press, Palgrave/Macmillan, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Stanford University; Modern Philology, Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, Chaucer Review, Writing on the Edge. Fellowship reviewer for Israel Science Foundation, Stanford Humanities Center, National Humanities Center.