Santa Clara University

Ron Hansen was born in Omaha, Nebraska and educated at Creighton University, the University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop, and at Stanford University, where 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, where he earned an M.A. in Spirituality in 1995.

• Fiction Writing
• Advanced Fiction Writing
• Screenwriting
• Writing in the Community
• The Bible as Literature
• Contemporary Literature
• The 20th Century American Short Story

• Contemporary Literature
• The Bible as Literature
• The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

• Isn't It Romantic?: An Entertainment, 2003
• A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction, 2001
• Hitler's Niece: A Novel, 1999
• Atticus: A Novel, 1996
• Mariette in Ecstasy: A Novel, 1991
• Nebraska: Stories, 1989
• The Shadowmaker, children's book, 1987
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: A Novel, 1983
• Desperadoes: A Novel, 1979