RésuméDirector Schildgen - Dante`s Divine Comedy

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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, 2006–2011
Interim Director, University Writing Program, UC Davis, 2003–2005
Lecturer, Comparative Literature, UC Davis, 1988–2002 (Teaching Assistant Supervisor
1995–1998, 2003–2004)
University of San Francisco
Assistant and Associate Dean, Assistant Professor, English 1980–88
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, 2005–2006
Davis Humanities Institute Research Fellowship, Winter Quarter 2004
PEW Charitable Funds Research Fellowship, 1998–1999
National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, 1994–1995
Other awards
Fifteen University Instructional Improvement Program or Teaching Assistant
Development Program Support Grants (1990–2010)
Academic Senate New Research Initiative Grant 2012-13.
2001 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
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, 1987–1989
Davis Humanities Institute co-sponsorship funds for conferences.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2012 Divine Providence A History: Bible, Virgil, Orosius, Augustine and Dante. New
York: Continuum, 2013. (Written with the support of a PEW Grant, 1998–1999).
2013 Italian translation of Dante and the Orient. Champaign, Illinois: University of
Illinois Press, 2002, published by Salerno Editrice.
2010 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.
2008 Heritage or Heresy: Destruction and Preservation of Religious Art and
Architecture in Europe. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan.
2007 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.
2006 Other Renaissances, a co-edited collection of essays with Zhou Gang and Sander
Gilman. Palgrave/Macmillan.
2002 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.
2002 Dante and the Orient. University of Illinois Press (Written with the support of an
NEH grant).
2001 Pagans, Tartars, Jews, and Moslems in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. University of
Florida Press.
1999 Power and Prejudice: Reception of the Gospel of Mark. Wayne State University
Press. (Choice award for Best Academic Book, 1999).
1998 Crisis and Continuity: Time in the Gospel of Mark. Sheffield Academic Press, UK.
1997 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): 101-19.
1992 “Dante’s tëodia and John’s alto preconio in Canto XXVI, Paradiso,” Stanford
Italian Review: 171-85.
1993 “Petrarch’s Defense of Secular Letters, the Latin Fathers, and Ancient Roman
Rhetoric,” Rhetorica: 119-34. 1993 “Jerome’s Prefaces to the Bible and The Canterbury
Tales,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer: 111-29.
1994 “A Blind Promise: Mark’s Retrieval of Esther,” Poetics Today: 115-31.
“Augustine’s Answer to Jacques Derrida in the De Doctrina Christiana,” New
Literary History: 383-97.
“Looking East: Dante and the Indus,” Dante Studies: 177-93.
1995 “Wonders on the Border: Precious Stones in the Comedy,” Dante Studies: 131-50.
1996 “The Gospel of Mark as Myth,” in Through a Glass Darkly: Essays in the
Religious Imagination (New York: Fordham University Press): 3-23.
1996 “Francesco Petrarca and Christian Antiquity,” Rivista di Studi Italiani: 1-19.
“Overcoming Augustinian Dichotomies in Defense of the Laurel in
Canzoni 359-360 of the Rime sparse,” Modern Language Notes: 149-63.
1998 “The Gospel of Mark as Picaresque Novella,” Genre (1996): 297-323.
1999 “Dante and the Crusades," Dante Studies (1998): 95-125.
2000 “Boethius and the Consolation of Literature in Boccaccio’s Decameron and
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales,” in The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales. 102-27.
2000 "Dante e la Crociata,” Verbum (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2001), 69-83.
2002 "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), 209-21.
2003 “Allegory, Time, and Space in the Micraj and its Commentary Tradition,”
Allegorica.
2004 "'Ceci Tuera Cela': Notre-Dame de Paris and the Murder of Monuments,"
Variations.
2004 “Dante in India: Sri Aurobindo and Savitri,” Dante Studies.
2005 “No Bounds to the Sympathetic Imagination in J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello,”
Critical Comparative Studies 2:3.
2005 “The Legacy of Erich Auerbach and Edward Said: Philology and History in the
Future of Comparative Literature,” Journal for Comparative and General Literature.
2006 "Sri Aurobindo: Renaissance in India and the Italian Renaissance," in Other
Renaissances.
2007 "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.
2008 “Middle Eastern Apocalyptic Traditions in Dante's La Divina Commedia and
Mohammed's Micraj or night journey,” at Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History.
2009 “Conversion: ’επιστροφε and µετανοια in the Gospel of Mark.” Journal of Jewish
History 23:1-16.
2009 “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. 113- 132.
2010 “Poetry and Theology in the Fourteenth Century,” Religion and Literature.
2010 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.
2010 “Animals, Poetry and Philosophy, and Dante's Commedia,” Modern Philology.
2010 Rept. “Dante and the Crusades,” from Dante and the Orient, in Poetry Criticism
108.
2010 “Gabriele Paleotti and the Discorso intorno alle imagini sacre e profane,” in Sacred
Possessions, ed. Sybille Ebert-Schifferer and Gail Feigenbaum (Getty Research Institute,
2010), based on the conference “Sacred Possessions? Italy and Collecting Religious Art,
1500-1900,” co-organized by the Bibliotheca Hertziana and the Getty Research Institute
(GRI), and held at the American Academy in Rome, June 19-21, 2007.
2010 “Thomas More and the Defense of Images in the Dialogue Concerning Heresies,”
Moreana 47 (Dec., 2010), 9-30.
2011 “Dante for contemporary satire: Sean Meredith’s Dante’s Inferno and Jean-Luc
Godard’s Notre Musique,” Rivista di Studi Italiani.
2012 “Reception of Dante in Nineteenth-Century India,” in Dante in the "Long" 19th
century (1789- 1914), ed. Aida Audeh and Nick Havely (Oxford University Press).
2013 “Reception, Elegy, and Eco-Awareness:Trees in Statius, Boccaccio, and Chaucer.”
Journal of Comparative Literature.
Selected Invited Talks 2000–2009
(Approximately 80 invited or conference talks 1985–2011)
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-PlanckInstitut für Kuntsgeschichte, Rome.
2004, May, “Dante, the Middle East, and India,” Dante Society of America, annual
meeting, Harvard.
2001 “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, 2002- (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
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
2006-11 Director and Chair, Comparative Literature
2003-05 Interim Director, University Writing Program, UC, Davis
1987–89 Project Director, $75,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Institutional
Grant supporting the M.A. in Writing, U.S.F.
1987–1988 Assistant Dean, Arts and Sciences, University of San Francisco.
1986–88 Founder and Director, Masters of Arts in Writing Program, University of San
Francisco.
1980–1988 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.

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