Brenda Deen Schildgen

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

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.

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Indiana University Bloomington, 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"), University of San Francisco; B.A., English and French, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Provided by Wikipedia