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Overview

Anne Valente is a fiction writer and member of the Hamilton College faculty in the Department of Literature and Creative Writing, appointed in 2017. She holds a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, an M.S. from the University of Illinois, an M.F.A. from Bowling Green State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. She teaches creative writing and literature courses including writing-intensive proseminars and courses on American ghosts and identity.

Relevance to Research

The 2017-18 course catalog (yhm-arc-pub-cat-2017-18) is the first to list her as a faculty member, including her in the Literature department roster and assigning her to a writing-intensive proseminar on travel and American identity. All subsequent catalogs through 2024-25 continue to list her as a faculty member with hire year 2006 [sic — the catalog notation “(2017)” in faculty listings indicates her hire year as 2017]. The 2019-20 catalog notes she was on leave in fall 2019. The 2023-24 catalog explicitly names her as “Anne Valente (Literature and Creative Writing)” and identifies her as an “Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing.” She is listed as teaching courses including “American Ghosts” and writing proseminars in the 2023-24 catalog.

Notes

The catalogs consistently show “(2017)” as her hire year, indicating she joined the faculty in 2017. She appears in every catalog from 2017-18 through 2024-25 in the assigned corpus, with the exception of a noted leave in fall 2019. No disambiguation issues.