Professor William H. Nienhauser, Jr.

William H. Nienhauser, Jr. 倪豪士 (b. 1943) is married with two children and three grand children. He majored in Chinese literature at Indiana University and Bonn University receiving his Ph.D in 1973 under Professor Liu Wuji 柳無忌. That year Nienhauser became assistant professor of East Asian Literature (University of Wisconsin); he has been Halls-Bascom Chair Professor of Chinese Literature there since 1995 (Emeritus since 2020); he also taught or held research grants in China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, and Germany. His publications include Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature (2 vol.), nine volumes of translations from the Shiji (The Grand Scribe’s Records, 1994–2016) as well as studies of P’i Jih-hsiu (Pi Rixiu) and Liu Tsung-yuan (Liu Zongyuan), and the Biographical Dictionary of Tang Dynasty Literati (2022), in addition to more than 100 articles and reviews. Nienhauser was a founding editor of Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) and served the journal until 2013 as co-editor. He has held grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Japan Foundation, the Fulbright Program, the German Research Foundation, Committee on Scholarly Communication with China, the Center for Advanced Studies (Munich), and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2003 he was awarded a Forschungspreis (Research Prize) for lifetime achievement from the Humboldt Foundation.

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