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Brenda Deen Schildgen
Brenda Deen Schildgen, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at University of California, Davis, and 2008 recipient of the University of California, Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement, specializes in the European Middle Ages, the Bible as literature, Dante, and Jewish, Christian, and Moslem relations in the European Middle Ages. She is the author of more than fifty articles and book reviews and of numerous books including most recently, Divine Providence, a study of Virgil, Bible, Augustine, and Dante; Heritage or Heresy: Preservation and Destruction of Art and Artifacts; Dante and the Orient; and Power and Prejudice: The Reception of the Gospel of Mark.