Past Event: "Hotly in Pursuit of the Real" | A Reading and Conversation with Ron Hansen

Ron Hansen, headshot

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Location: Online

Admission: Free

Open to: General Public

Description: The Lana Schwebel Memorial Lecture in Religion and Literature


Ron Hansen was born in Omaha, Nebraska and educated at Creighton University, the University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop, and Stanford University; at Stanford he held a Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship.

He has received fellowships from the Michigan Society of Fellows, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Lyndhurst Foundation, and was presented with an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Professor Hansen has taught fiction and screenwriting at such institutions as Stanford, Michigan, Cornell, Iowa, Arizona, and is now the Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University, where he earned an M.A. in Spirituality in 1995.