USD Welcomes Fiction, Faith Writer Ron Hansen March 3-4

USD Welcomes Fiction, Faith Writer Ron Hansen March 3-4

The University of San Diego will host fiction and faith writer Ron Hansen for a pair of free evening speaking events connected to his published works on March 3 and 4.

Hansen, who is the Gerard Manley Hopkins S.J. Professor in the Department of English at his graduate alma mater, Santa Clara University, will give a talk Thursday, March 3, 7 p.m., on “Fiction and Faith.” This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Christian Spirituality and the Frances G. Harpst Center for Catholic Thought and Culture. Hansen’s event will take place in the Warren Auditorium within Mother Rosalie Hill Hall (SOLES). A dessert reception and book signing will follow.

On Friday, March 4, also at 7 p.m. and also in the Warren Auditorium space, Hansen will be the featured speaker and will be reading from his own published works at the Lindsay J. Cropper Memorial Writers Series event. Again, a dessert reception and book signing will immediately follow.

Hansen is the author of numerous novels and short story collections, including Mariette In Ecstasy, Nebraska, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and most recently, A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion. He is also the author of A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction.

He has received fellowships from Stanford University (Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship), 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. He has previously taught at Stanford, Michigan, Cornell, Iowa and Arizona before his current position at Santa Clara.

— USD News Center