Valerie Hotchkiss is the Head of The Rare Book & Special Collections Library and Professor of Medieval Studies at The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her education includes a B.A. in Classical Languages from the University of Cincinnati, with extensive study abroad at the University of Tübingen, a Master's degree in Library Science., and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale University. Before coming to the U of I, she directed Bridwell Library at Southern Methodist University. At the University of Illinois she heads one of the most diverse collections of rare books and archives in the United States, with particular strengths in fifteenth and sixteenth-century printing, eighteenth-century English materials, the history of science, and the history of books and printing. She is also the founding director of the Midwest Book & Manuscript Studies program, a course of study offered through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Her books include Clothes Make the Man: Female Transvestism in Medieval Europe and, as co-author, The Reformation of the Bible / The Bible of the Reformation. She published the multi-volume Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition with Jaroslav Pelikan at Yale University Press in 2003. She has recently completed a book on early English printing to be published in 2008.

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