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WILLIAM F. HANSEN

Classicist and folklorist William F. Hansen (born 1941) is Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies and Folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington. His academic specialties include folk narrative (myth, legend, and folktale), early Greek epic, and ancient popular literature. Hansen is one of the world's foremost scholars of mythology and folktales.

 Life and Career  Hansen was born of Danish-American parents in Fresno, California. He attended Reed College briefly as a philosophy major but subsequently turned to classics, earning his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1965, and his Ph.D. there in 1970. At Berkeley he studied with mythologist Joseph Fontenrose, philologist George Koniaris, and folklorist Alan Dundes.

In 1970, Hansen accepted a position as assistant professor in the Department of Classical Studies and an appointment as a Fellow of the Folklore at Indiana University. He became a full professor in 1985 and later served as chair of the department from 1997 until his retirement in 2005. http://classics.indiana.edu/faculty/

Hansen is married to Mary Beth Hannah-Hansen, also a classicist, and has a daughter Inge Hansen and a stepdaughter Julene Jones.

 Publications  A list of Hansen’s books appears below. A complete bibliography of his scholarly articles to date is found on his personal home page: https://sites.google.com/site/williamfhansen/Home/articles. •The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017.

•Anonymous: Life of Aesop. Bryn Mawr Greek Commentaries. Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr College, 2008.

•Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Spanish translation: Los Mitos Clasicos: Una Guia del Mundo Mitico de Grecia y Roma. Traduccion Castellana de Efren del Valle. Barcelona: Critica, 2011.

•Handbook of Classical Mythology. Santa Barbara CA, Denver CO, Oxford England: ABC-CLIO, 2004.

•Myth: A New Symposium (co-edited with Gregory Schrempp). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.

•Ariadne’s Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical  Literature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002. Winner: Single Reference Humanities, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Award, Association of American Publishers, 2002. Alternate Selection of the Readers' Subscription.

•Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

•Phlegon of Tralles’ Book of Marvels. Exeter Studies in History. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1996.

•Saxo Grammaticus and the Life of Hamlet: History, Translation, and Commentary. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983. •The Conference Sequence: Patterned Narration and Narrative Inconsistency in the Odyssey. University of California Publications: Classical Studies, 8. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1972.

 Select Fellowships, Grants, and Honors 

•Fellow of the American Folklore Society, 2010 ff.

•Bloomington Restorations Inc., Award for Outstanding Contribution by a Community Volunteer, 1996

•Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University, Fellow, 1992-93

•American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowships, 1977-78, 1992

•National Endowment for the Humanities, Younger Humanist Fellow, 1972-73 •Honorary Fellow of the American Scandinavian Foundation, 1968-69 •ΦΒΚ, University of California, Berkeley, 1965 •Departmental Citation in Recognition of Outstanding Undergraduate Accomplishment in Classics, University of California, Berkeley, 1965