Ph.D., University of Indiana
Bloomington Professor of Comparative Literature
Winner of the 2001 UC Davis Outstanding Teacher Award

Brenda Schildgen's books include Crisis and Continuity: Time in the Gospel of Mark; Power and Prejudice: The Reception of the Gospel of Mark; Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a co-edited volume; and Dante and the Orient. She is a specialist in the European Middle Ages, particularly Southern Europe, hermeneutics and interpretive theory, reception theory, the relationship between history and fiction, and narrative theory. She has also published a co-edited collection of fables, entitled The World of Fables. New studies include work on late antique Christianity, the medieval vernacular Bible, and iconoclasm.