VALERIE HOTCHKISS Director of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library Andrew Turyn Endowed Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [email protected] (217) 333 3174
• EDUCATION
Yale University, MA, MPhil, PhD in Medieval Studies, 1987, 1988, 1990.
Southern Connecticut State University, MLS, 1984.
University of Cincinnati, BA summa cum laude in Classical Languages and Literatures, 1982.
University of Tübingen, Classical Languages and Literature, German Literature, 1981-82.
• EXPERIENCE
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Andrew S. G. Turyn Endowed Professor and Director of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library; Professor of Medieval Studies and Library Science, and Director of the Midwest Book & Manuscript Studies Program, 2005-present.
• Major accomplishments: 1) editor-in-chief of Women in Print, digital humanities publishing project at University of Illinois Press; 2) increased use and awareness of the collections through public engagement programming, teaching, exhibitions, and publications; 3) acquired major poetry archives, including the papers of Gwendolyn Brooks, D. H. Melhem, and W. S. Merwin; 4) introduced digital humanities and data curation; 4) founded the Midwest Book & Manuscript Studies Program; 5) established BiblioTech, a center for new technologies and special collections; 6) renovated public areas, vault, and security systems; 7) made collections more accessible and secured grant funding for innovative cataloging program; 8) established visiting scholar fellowships; 9) organized a book collectors’ club and primary source reading groups; 10) integrated social media into mission of the library.
Southern Methodist University, Bridwell Library. J. S. Bridwell Foundation Endowed Librarian and Professor of Medieval Studies, July 1993 to July 2005.
• Major accomplishments: Managed a staff of 25 and an acquisitions budget of over 2.2 million. Organized national and international exhibitions; inaugurated three public lecture series; established program for visiting scholars; secured new endowments for funding exhibition programs and publications; initiated program of hands-on workshops in the printing and book arts; introduced preservation program, including digitization projects for rare materials; oversaw renovations; led development efforts that resulted in the addition of about $16 million dollars in endowments, as well as gifts of books and collections valued at more than $5 million.
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Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Library Director, July 1989 to June 1993. • Major accomplishments: Complete automation of the library operations; retrospective conversion and barcoding project of entire collection; stack expansion and redesign; and development work, particularly for renovation of archives.
Yale University. Special Collections Cataloger, Divinity School Library, April to July 1988; Divinity School Circulation Librarian, March 1985 to July 1986.
• PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Board of Governors, Association of Yale Alumni, 2014-present.
Phi Beta Kappa Society, Senator-at-Large, National Office (6 year term), 2009-2015.
Graduate School Alumni Association at Yale University, Chair of the Executive Board, 2012-2014; Vice-Chair, 2010-2012; Treasurer, 2009-10; Chair of Regional Outreach/Global Day of Service Committee, 2010- ; Board member since 2006.
President of Gamma of Illinois Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 2014-2016.
Member of the Standing Committee of the Rare Books and Special Collections Section of the International Federation of Library Associations, 2015- .
Executive Council of the Caxton Club, Chicago, 2015-2018.
Organizer and convener of “Where do I go from Yale?,” a workshop for graduate students, Yale University, 2013-2014.
Board of Directors of Manuscriptlink, an international digital humanities collaborative 2013- .
Wilbur Cross Medal Selection Committee, Yale University, 2008, 2010-2012. Chair of the Committee, 2012-2014.
NEH grant review board, 2006-2007.
Founding Director of The Midwest Book & Manuscript Studies Program, a course of study jointly offered by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, May 2006- .
Member of the Library Advisory Board, Dallas Museum of Art, 1996-2005.
Judge for the Dallas Museum of Art Vasari Book Prize in Art History, 1995, 1997, 2000.
Evaluator and consultant for the Lilly Endowment’s Teaching and Learning Initiative, 1997-2001.
Founder/first President, Southwest American Theological Library Association, 1992-93.
Reviewer for Choice, American Reference Book Annual, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Church History, Journal of Early Christian Studies, the University of Toronto Quarterly, and Oxford University Press.
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• COURSES TAUGHT
“A Primer for Exhibitionists: A Practical Course on Preparing and Producing Effective Exhibitions in Library and Museum Settings,” The University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Midwest Book & Manuscript Studies Program, 2010-2015.
“Great Printers and their Books,” The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Summer Session, 2006, 2008.
“Themes in Christian/Jewish Relations,” Southern Methodist University (in conjunction with the National Conference of Christians and Jews), 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, and 2001.
“The Idea and Ideal of Women in the Middle Ages,” Southern Methodist University, 1994, 1995.
• FELLOWSHIPS AND DISTINCTIONS
Winner of Yale Alumni Association Excellence Award for best Graduate School Alumni event, 2014.
University Distinguished Alumna Award, University of Cincinnati, McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, April 2013.
Member of the Elizabethan Club, Extraordinary, Yale University, 2012- .
Andrew Turyn Professorship. Five-year Chair for Distinguished Faculty in the Library, 2011-2016.
Honored for achievements in collection development by establishment of The Valerie Hotchkiss Reformation Collection at Southern Methodist University, 2005.
Recognized, with Jaroslav Pelikan, for “Outstanding Academic Title of 2003” by Choice Magazine and by the Association of American Publishers for Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition (4-volumes, Yale University Press).
Winner, with Charles C. Ryrie, of the American Library Association’s Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab Exhibition Catalogue Award for 2000 for Formatting the Word of God (Dallas: Bridwell Library).
Winner, with Jaroslav Pelikan and David Price, of the Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab Exhibition Catalogue Award for 1997 for the publication of The Reformation of the Bible / The Bible of the Reformation (Yale Press, 1996). This book was also chosen as a History Book of the Month Club selection.
Member of the Grolier Club, New York, elected 1996.
Yale University Fellowship (full tuition and stipend), 1986-90.
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Yale University Library Staff Association Scholarship, 1984.
Member of Phi Beta Kappa, elected 1982.
DAAD scholarship for language study in Germany, 1981.
Horace Prize, University of Cincinnati, 1980.
Louise Taft Semple Scholarship for the study of Classical Languages at the University of Cincinnati (full tuition and funding for study abroad), 1979-82.
• SELECTIVE GRANTS & FUNDRAISING
Council on Libraries and Information Resources, “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” program, 2014-17, grant to catalog significant Italian history collection, $498,952.
Research Board grant for creating a bilingual online exhibition site as part of an international exhibition on the Jewish Book Controversy and Johannes Reuchlin, May 2012.
Funding from the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) of Illinois to catalog Sandburg Lincoln materials and a large collection of Confederate imprints at the University of Illinois, February 2009 (one-year project, culminating in exhibition and symposium to celebrate new access to the collections).
Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, University of Illinois, 2007 for work on traveling exhibition, English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton.
Funding from the Mellon Foundation for a project titled “An Embarrassment of Riches” at the University of Illinois, March 2006 (3-year, $500,000 grant funding personnel and resources to enable major cataloging project).
Funding from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for a project titled “Making Finding Aids Findable” at the University of Illinois, November 2005 (18-month grant funding personnel and resources to improve access to archival finding aids).
$1 million matching grant from the J. S. Bridwell Foundation to assist in raising $2 million endowment for publication program. Goal achieved, September 2001.
Grants from the Lilly Endowment for research leave, February-August 2001 and 1997-98.
Negotiated $10 million gift from the J.S. Bridwell Foundation to endow collection development and programs, Dallas, Texas, 1994.
• LANGUAGE SKILLS
Fluency in German; good knowledge of Latin, Classical Greek, Old English, and several other medieval languages (Medieval Latin, Old and Middle High German, Old French); good reading knowledge of French and Dutch; some reading knowledge of Italian.
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PUBLICATIONS & LECTURES
• BOOKS
Miracle within a Miracle: Johannes Reuchlin and the Jewish Book Controversy. With David H. Price. Urbana: Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 2011. Catalog. Bilingual online version of exhibition (2012): go.illinois.edu/jewishbookcontroversy.
English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton. With Fred Robinson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition. 4 volumes and CD-Rom. Edited in collaboration with Jaroslav Pelikan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Bridwell at Fifty: Books, Benefactors, & Bibliophiles. Dallas: Bridwell Library, 2001.
Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe. New York: Garland Press, 1996. Reissued in paperback, 2000. Republished by Routledge Press in 2012.
The Reformation of the Bible / The Bible of the Reformation. With Jaroslav Pelikan and David Price. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
• EDITOR/CONTRIBUTOR
Editor-in-chief of Women in Print: Primary Source E-books by Women series. University of Illinois Press, 2015- . Vol. 1: Mary Astell, Some Reflections upon Marriage (2015); Vol. 2: The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (2015); Vol. 3: Mary Wollstonecraft, Original Stories from Real Life (forthcoming, 2015); Vol. 4: Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (forthcoming, 2016); Vol. 5: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (forthcoming, 2016). http://womeninprint.press.illinois.edu/.
“Small Format, Big News: The 1862 Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.” Bibliographic essay in The 1862 Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation: A Facsimile Edition. Urbana, Chicago, Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Foreword to The Wealth of Notions: Economists in Conflict. Catalogue of the Jacob H. Hollander Library of Economica. Urbana: RBML, 2012.
Orthodoxy and Western Culture: Essays in Honor of the 80th Birthday of Jaroslav Pelikan. Edited by Valerie Hotchkiss and Patrick Henry. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Press, 2006.
Foreword to The Antichrist Girolamo of Ferrara, Greatest of all Hypocrites: A Manuscript of Marsilio Ficino’s Apologia Contra Savonarolam from the Collections at Bridwell Library. Edited by Volkhard Wels. Dallas: Southern Methodist University, 2006.
Foreword to Dante at Illinois. Exhibition catalog. Urbana: RBML, 2006.
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Preface to Livres d’artiste: The Artist and the Book in Twentieth-Century France. Curated by Dorothy Kosinski. Dallas: Bridwell Library, 2005.
Formatting the Word of God: The Charles Caldwell Ryrie Collection. Edited by Valerie R. Hotchkiss and Charles C. Ryrie. Dallas: Bridwell Library, 1998.
Decherd Turner. ‘Dividing the two so long joined,’ Ex and Libris. Edited by Valerie R. Hotchkiss. Dallas: Bridwell Library, 1997.
The American Theological Library Association: Essays in Celebration of the First Fifty Years. Edited by Valerie Hotchkiss, M. Patrick Graham, and Kenneth E. Rowe. Evanston: ATLA, 1996.
Miniature Literature: The Stanley Marcus Collection of Miniature Books at Bridwell Library. Edited by Valerie Hotchkiss. North Brookfield, MA: Sun Hill Press, 1995.
I Am Your Affectionate Brother J. Wesley. Curated by Page Thomas and edited by Valerie R. Hotchkiss. Dallas: Bridwell Library, 1994.
Girolamo Savonarola: Piety, Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Florence. Curated by Donald Weinstein. Edited by Donald Weinstein and Valerie R. Hotchkiss. Dallas: Bridwell Library, 1994.
• SELECTED ARTICLES
“A Great Library on the American Prairie: The History of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.” Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique 84 (2013):55-63.
“Was wir ererbt haben,” and “Bibliography of Jaroslav Pelikan, 1946-2005,” in Orthodoxy and Western Culture: Essays in Honor of the 80th Birthday of Jaroslav Pelikan, edited by Valerie Hotchkiss and Patrick Henry. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Press, 2005, 11-27 and 185-231.
“The Scholar-Librarian: New and Exciting Ways to Use Your Ph.D.” American Theological Library Association Newsletter, February 2005.
“Credo, Credis, Credimus: The Making of Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition,” Proceedings of the American Theological Library Association, 2004, 91-96.
“The Library as Paradise: A Bibliophilic Sermon,” Perkins Perspectives, Spring 2001.
“Mají být knihovny patrony knižních umĕlcu?” Czech translation of “The Library as Maecenas for Book Artists?” Knihařský Bulletin 1996 (Summer). Reprinted in Problematika Historicky a Vzácnych knižnich fondu Čzech, Moravy a Slezska (Brno, 1996), 90-95.
“An Overabundance of Grace: Women’s Convent Chronicles in Fourteenth-Century Dominican Convents,” in The Unbounded Community: Papers in Honor of Jaroslav Pelikan (New York: Garland Press, 1996), 113-26.
“Dietrich Schernberg’s Ein schön Spiel von Frau Jutten: The Salvation of the Female Pope,” in Canon
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and Canon-Transgression in Medieval German Literature, edited by Albrecht Classen (Göppingen: Kümmerle, 1994), 195–206.
“The Legend of the Female Pope in the Reformation,” Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1994), 495-505.
“Gender Transgression and the Abandoned Wife in Medieval Literature,” in Gendering Rhetorics: Postures of Dominance and Submission in Human History, edited by Richard Trexler. Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1994), 207–18.
• MEDIA
“The Gwendolyn Brooks Collection at Illinois.” Interview with Jim Turpin, Penny for Your Thoughts on WDWS radio, April 18, 2014.
“The King James Bible, 400 Years.” Guest on WILL Focus talk show, Illinois Public Media September 28, 2011. Steve Shoemaker, host.
Guest and commentator for the History Channel series “Beyond Sex,” aired December 2009. Topic: Female Transvestism in Medieval Europe. Deborah Blum, producer.
Guest on Extension 720. Topic: the role of special collections libraries in society and culture, WGN Radio, Chicago, 28 February 2006. Milt Rosenberg, interviewer.
The Mystery of Pope Joan: Was there a Female Pope? Guest and commentator on ABC News, Primetime Live, December 29, 2005. Diane Sawyer, anchor.
• INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS (SINCE 2000)
"Women in Print: Primary Source e-books by Women." Modern Languages Association, Presidential Panel, Austin, TX, 8 January 2016.
“The Impact of the Imprint: Digital Publishing at a University Press.” Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, October 1, 2015.
“ΦΒΚ: Love of Learning, Guide of Life,” Initiation address for Phi Beta Kappa. University of Illinois, May 2015.
“Careers in the Humanities…but not in the Classroom.” Panel session for Graduate School Career Conference “Where Do I Go from Yale?” Yale University, May 13, 2014.
“Opportunities and Challenges for Special Collections in Early Decades of the 21st Century.” Harvard University, Houghton Library, March 3, 2014
“Digitize This! (...but put it in context, please).” Digital Frontiers 2013, University of North Texas, September 2013.
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“Pirates, Pixels, and Picture Books: New Discoveries, New Projects, and New Acquisitions at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Urbana-Champaign.” Caxton Club, Chicago, September 2013.
“From Physical Artifact to Copies to Super Surrogates: The Use (and Abuse) of Surrogates in Special Collections.” American Institute for Conservation Conference, Indianapolis, May 2013.
“Colleagues or Rivals? Academic e-Publishing vs. Commercial e-Publishing in the Humanities.” Panel presentation at Digitize This: Exploring/Exploiting the Rise of Digital Arts & Digital Humanities, Worcester, Massachusetts, November 2012.
“The Book is Dead / Long Live the Book! Opportunities and Challenges for Special Collections in Early Decades of the 21st Century.” Fisher Library, University of Toronto, February 2013.
“Expanded Academia.” Organizer and lead speaker for panel discussion for Where Do I Go from Yale? 2nd annual workshop for Yale Graduate School students, Yale University, May 2012.
“The Books behind the Good Book: The King James Bible and the Continental Reformation.” Reformation Day Lecture, Emory University, October 2011.
“Where Do I Go from Yale? Why Not Stay in the Library?” Panel presentation at workshop for Yale Graduate School students, Yale University, May 2011.
“Commemorating a Coronation (or Two): The Ordo ad consecrandum of Charles IV and Jeanne d’Evreux (1326).” Dallas Museum of Art, October 2010.
“The Heart of the Matter: The Place of Academic Libraries in the 21st Century.” College of William and Mary, April 2010.
“O Brave New World, that has such pixels in’t! The Mission of Special Collections Libraries in the 21st Century.” Emory University, April 7, 2009.
“An Embarrassment of Riches No More: Bringing to Light Hidden Collections at the University of Illinois.” University of Virginia, February 25, 2009.
“As it hath bin divers and sundry times play’d: The Survival of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Print.” The Early British Literature Colloquium and the Department of English, University of North Texas, January 16, 2009.
“Quick & Clean Rare Book Cataloging at the University of Illinois.” PACSCL Conference (Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries), December 4, 2008.
“The Play’s the Thing: Shakespeare’s Contemporaries and the Art and Business of Writing Plays.” Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, IL, October 29, 2008.
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“Caxton’s Club: Early English Printers.” Caxton Club presentation. Chicago, April 11, 2008.
“Who Are We? & Why Are We Here? Existential Questions for the 21st-Century Academic Library.” Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., May 17, 2007.
“An Embarrassment of Riches: The Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.” Caxton Club presentation. Chicago, December 8, 2006.
“Lighting Fires with Rare Books and Manuscripts: The Role of Special Collections in Teaching and Learning.” The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November 22, 2006.
“Using, Abusing, Confusing, and Amusing Rare Books and Manuscripts.” Annual meeting of the Alpha Chapter of Beta Phi Mu, International Honor Society for Library and Information Science, October 28, 2006.
“Novel Ways of Putting to Use a Medieval Studies Degree.” Yale Graduate School Alumni Conference, New Haven, April 29, 2006.
“Needles in Haystacks, Cornucopia in the Cornfields: The Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.” History of the Book Symposium at the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, April 14, 2006.
“The Universal Mission of Special Collections Libraries.” Princeton University, May 2001.
“Early English Bibles and the Archbishopric of Canterbury.” A lecture in honor of the visit of George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Southern Methodist University, March 2000.
• A SELECTION OF EXHIBITIONS PRODUCED, ORGANIZED, OR CURATED
O Put me in thy books! 400 Years of Shakespeare in Fiction. 35 items. University of Illinois, February - April 2016. Chief curator of online component with collaborators and complementary events at the Library at Shakespeare's Globe in London, The Elizabethan Club at Yale, and Durham University, February-April 2016.
Marks of Distinction: Reflections on the Reading Room Windows. 26 items. University of Illinois, November 2014.
Fire Burne & Cauldron Bubble: Witchcraft at the Dawn of Modernity. University of Illinois, 30 May-8 August 2014.
The Wealth of Notions: Economists in Conflict. Selections from the Jacob H. Hollander Collection of Economica at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 23 items. Catalog. University of Illinois, September-December 2012.
Miracle within a Miracle: Johannes Reuchlin and the Jewish Book Controversy. 39 items. Catalog. University of
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Illinois, Hebrew Union College (Cincinnati), Jewish Museum of Frankfurt, and City of Pforzheim, April 2011-October 2012.
Out of many good ones, one principal good one: Celebrating the King James Bible at 400. 28 items. University of Illinois, 14 September-15 December, 2011.
English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton. Joint exhibition with the Elizabethan Club of Yale University. Curated by Fred C. Robinson and Valerie Hotchkiss. University of Illinois, Grolier Club (New York), University of Illinois at Chicago, May 2008-December 2009.
One in a Million: An Exhibition of Eleven Landmark Acquisitions at The University of Illinois. 11 items. Full-color booklet. University of Illinois, October-December 2009.
Livres d’Artiste: The Artist and the Book in 20th-Century France. 78 openings. Catalog. Southern Methodist University, 10 March-1 June 2005.
From George to George: Presidential Elections in the United States from 1789 to the Present. Catalog. 244 items. Southern Methodist University, September 2004-January 2005.
Dallas Collects. 99 items. 16 notecards. Southern Methodist University, May-August 2004.
The Bible in English: Before and After the Hampton Court Conference. 61 items. Southern Methodist University, Princeton University, John Rylands Library (University of Manchester), 2004- 2007.
The Helen Warren DeGolyer Triennial Exhibition and Competition for American Bookbinding: Binding Designs for The Pennyroyal Press Edition of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 42 items. Southern Methodist University, June-July 2003.
Peter Shoeffer: Printer of Mainz. 42 items. Catalog. Southern Methodist University, September- December 2003.
A Methodist Minister in Paris: The Letters of Andrew Longacre, 1860–1862. 98 items. Catalog. Southern Methodist University, February-May 2002.
The Helen Warren DeGolyer Triennial Exhibition and Competition: Designs for Ulysses by American Bookbinders. 51 items. Catalog. Southern Methodist University, June–August 2000.
Johannes Gutenberg: Man of the Millennium. 60 items. Brochure. Southern Methodist University, September-December 2000.
The Poor and the People Called Methodists. 54 items. Catalog. Southern Methodist University, October 1999-February 2000.
When Your Children Ask You Shall Tell Them: The Art of the Passover Haggadah. 43 items on loan from the Hebrew Union College. Brochure. Southern Methodist University, March-May 2000; Hebrew Union College, March-May 2001.
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Ediciones dos Amigos: A Celebration of New Friendships between Argentine and American Book Lovers. Catalog. 45 items. Southern Methodist University, March-June 1999.
Formatting the Word of God: The Charles Caldwell Ryrie Collection. 70 items. Catalog, CD, and website. Southern Methodist University, October 1998-February 1999.
Selina Hastings, the Countess of Huntingdon. 86 items. Catalog. Southern Methodist University, February-April 1997.
Ex Libris Decherd Turner. 135 items. Pamphlet. Southern Methodist University, September-December 1997.
The Reformation of the Bible / The Bible of the Reformation. 84 items. Catalog by Yale University Press. Southern Methodist University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, 1996-1997.
The Kelmscott Press and Its Legacy. 146 items. Catalog. Southern Methodist University, October– December 1996.
Miniature Literature: The Stanley Marcus Collection of Miniature Books at Bridwell Library. 130 items. Miniature catalog. Southern Methodist University, February-May 1995.
I am Your Affectionate Brother JWesley. 42 items. Catalog. Southern Methodist University, September–December 1994.
Girolamo Savonarola: Piety, Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Florence. 99 items. Catalog. Southern Methodist University, March-July 1994.