V Stanley Benfell — Professor
Comparative Literature, Comparative Studies

Contact Information

Office: 3037 JFSB

Phone: 422-8110

Email: benfell@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses CmLit 201, 202, 420R (Renaissance lit, medieval lit.), 430R (epic, romance), 450R (representations of the divine)

Semester Schedule: Mondays, 2:00-3:00 pm, Thursdays, 10:00-11:00 am

Vita: Link to Vita

Website: http://hccl.byu.edu/faculty/benfell/faculty_site/Welcome.html

Biography:

Stan Benfell received his B.A. in Comparative Literature from BYU in 1987. He went on to graduate school at New York University, where he received M.A. (1990) and Ph.D. (1994) degrees. While writing his dissertation, he spent a year in Italy as a Fulbright scholar. He has been teaching Comparative Literature at BYU since 1994, teaching 201 and 202, as well as upper-division courses in his specialty of late medieval and Renaissance literature. He recently spearheaded the development (along with affiliated faculty member Scott Miller) of the new Comparative Literature Civilzation sequence CmLit 211 and 212.  He has published many articles and recently completed a book-length study on Dante and the Bible, forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press. In 2004, he was a fellow in a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar on the Seven Deadly Sins in Cambridge, England. Most recently, he directed BYU's Study Abroad program in London during summer and fall 2008. His current research is concerned with moral and religious philosophy and literature in late medieval Italy and England. He is currently the section head for Comparative Literature.

Degrees: PhD, New York University,1994
MA, New York University,1990
BA, Brigham Young University,1987

Interests:

Medieval and Renaissance Literature (French, Italian, and English); religion and literature; philosophy and literature