CONTACT INFORMATION:
Head of The Rare Book & Manuscript Library and Professor of Medieval Studies
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library
University of Illinois
1408 W. Gregory Dr. MC 5-22
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
 

Office Telephone:	(217) 333-3777
Office Fax:	(217) 244-4358
Active email:	vhotchki@uiuc.edu
Relevant Webpage: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/vhotchki/www/Home%20Page.htm  www.library.uiuc.edu/rbx

SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Early English Printing

Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:

English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming in April 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).

The Reformation of the Bible. The Bible of the Reformation (with Jaroslav Pelikan and David Price) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).
 

.WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:

History of the Medieval Book:
I work in the field of the history of books and printing..

Medieval Chronicle Studies:

Do you have any other ideas for themes that might be of broad academic interest to other
medievalists?   Children in the Middle Ages

Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Co-director of dissertation:

Committee member:

INVOLVEMENT IN DEVELOPMENT OF ONLINE RESEARCH RESOURCES (DATABASE, EDITION, ETC.): 
Project Unica, Octavo Editions, OCA scanning at U of I, Digitization collaboration with the Hebrew Union College, 
Cincinnati
 

MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:  not teaching presently.

Great Printers and their Books,” The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Summer Session, 2006.
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“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.

“Art and Literature in the Reformation,” Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

“Intensive Latin Review and Readings from the Writings of Church Mothers and Fathers,” Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.