Contact Information

Office: 3040 JFSB

Phone: 422-8110

E-mail: benfell@byu.edu

Office Hours:
Mondays, 2:00-3:00 pm, Thursdays, 10:00-11:00 am

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

Link to Vitae

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 has published many articles and recently completed a book-length study on Dante and the Bible, currently under review. 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 coordinator of BYU's European Studies program.

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

Links

• web site
• European Studies 200