SCHILDGEN, Brenda Deen 1942-

PERSONAL: Born December 17, 1942, in London, England; daughter of Nasir Din (in business) and Anna (Friedman) Deen; married Robert D. Schildgen (an editor), July 11, 1964; children: Jacob, Anna Schildgen Rodas, Matthew. Ethnicity: "Indian; South Asian." Education: Attended University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1965; Indiana University—Bloomington, M.A., 1969; University of San Francisco, Ph.D., 1972, M.A., 1989. Politics: "Leftist." Religion: Roman Catholic. Hobbies and other interests: Gardening, nature, art history, architecture, landscape, Indian culture.

ADDRESSES: Home—2418 Spaulding Ave., Berkeley, CA 94703. Office—Department of English, 811 Sproul Hall, University of California—Davis, Davis, CA 95616. E-mail—bdschildgen@ucdavis.edu.

CAREER: University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, director and associate dean of writing programs, 1980-88; University of California—Davis, faculty member, 1988-2001, professor of comparative literature and English, 2002—.

MEMBER: Modern Language Association of America, American Association of Italian Studies, New Chaucer Society, Medieval Association of the Pacific.

AWARDS, HONORS: Selection for "best academic book," Choice, 1999, for Power and Prejudice: The Reception of the Gospel of Mark.

WRITINGS:

The Rhetoric Canon, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1997.

Crisis and Continuity: Time in the Gospel of Mark, Sheffield Academic Press (Sheffield, England), 1998.

Power and Prejudice: The Reception of the Gospel of Mark, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1999.

(Editor, with Leonard Michael Koff, and contributor) The "Decameron" and the "Canterbury Tales": New Essays on an Old Question, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Madison, NJ), 2000.

Pagans, Tartars, Jews, and Moslems in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," University Press of Florida (Gainesville, FL), 2001.

Dante and the Orient, University of Illinois Press (Champaign, IL), 2002.

WORK IN PROGRESS: City of Gods, for Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), completion expected in 2004; research on "the vernacular Bible in the Middle Ages."

SIDELIGHTS: Brenda Schildgen told CA: "My motivation is the search for knowledge and for an understanding of history, culture, meaning, and myself. My work is influenced by disciplinary training and formation by dedicated teachers from the beginning of school until the present. My models are the scholars who share their time and support the work of others. My writing process involves research, thought, writing, more research, more thinking, rewriting. Ideas are not spontaneous but the product of reading, thinking, and probing subjects outside my area of expertise. My primary inspiration is a passionate interest in the subjects, due to intellectual and personal quests for understanding."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Catholic Biblical Quarterly, February, 2002, Kevin Madigan, review of Power and Prejudice: The Reception of the Gospel of Mark, p. 762.

Choice, June, 1998, R. B. Shuman, review of The Rhetoric Canon, p. 1701; November, 1999, D. Bourquin, review of Power and Prejudice, p. 558; February, 2002, D. Pesta, review of Pagans, Tartars, Jews, and Moslems in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," p. 1051.

Journal of Theological Studies, April, 2000, W. R. Telford, review of Power and Prejudice, p. 250.

Medium Aevum, spring, 2002, Jill Mann, review of The "Decameron" and the "Canterbury Tales": New Essays on an Old Question, p. 144.