Brenda Deen Schildgen

Brenda Deen Schildgen is a distinguished professor emerita

Education Deen Schildgen received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Indiana University Bloomington. Her MA thesis was entitled The Theophilus Legend: Three Versions. M.A., Comparative Literature, Indiana University Bloomington. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature also at Indiana University in 1972 with a dissertation titled Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Juan Ruiz' El Libro de Buen Amor. In 1989, she completed an M.A. in Religious Studies (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. 2008: University of California, Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement 1999: recipient of a Best Academic Book Choice award for Power and Prejudice