Boston College teaching record
Hanne Eisenfeld
Associate Professor
Biography
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.
Official evaluation summary
4.60 / 5