Classical Studies Faculty Directory
Hanne Eisenfeld
Associate Professor
Hanne Eisenfeld
Ph.D.
Contact
Email: hanne.eisenfeld@bc.edu
Courses
Classical Mythology; Dangerous Women in Classical Literature; Sex, Power, Gods: Ancient Wisdom Literature; Death in Ancient Greece; Intermediate Greek; Intermediate Latin; Advanced Greek seminars (including Homer's Iliad, Euripides' Helen and the goddess Aphrodite in Greek poetry).
Research Interests
Mythology, Greek Poetry, Greek Religion, Wisdom Literature, Greece and the Ancient Near East.
Profile
Hanne Eisenfeld studies mythology, poetry, and religion in the ancient Greek world, and her work emphasizes that these fields are not fully separable from each other at all. Her current research deals with wisdom literature: traditions that ask big questions about human life (how can we be happy? what does it mean to be mortal? why do we suffer?). She is interested especially in how Greek poetry takes up these problems and how it participates in broader wisdom conversations that were taking place around the Mediterranean and in the ancient Near East.
Select Appointments, Awards, and Grants
- Behrakis Assistant Professor in Hellenic Studies, Boston College, 2020-2023
- Mini-Conference Award, Boston College, 2018
- Fondation Hardt Research Fellowship, 2017