Amy Hamilton

Assistant Professor
M.A. & Ph.D., English Lit., University of Arizona
B.A., English & Women's Studies, Pomona College
amyhamil@nmu.edu

Teaching Specialties:

•  American Indian Literature
• Chicano/Chicana Literature
• Western American Literature
• Environmental Literature
• Early American Literature

Amy T. Hamilton, Assistant Professor of English, completed her Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Arizona.  She is currently working on a book project derived from her dissertation and tentatively titled Peregrinations: Walking in American Literature.  The project is a cross-cultural analysis of the pervasive trope of walking in American Literature.  Amy examines how American writers from different times and cultural backgrounds engage images of walking to explore the complex relationships between race, gender, literature, and landscape.  Amy has also presented numerous papers at regional and national conferences and has organized conferences on both the local and national level.  Her award-winning conference paper on American Indian women poets was published in the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association’s online journal.  Amy and her husband, Chris, and son, James, are happily settling into life in Marquette.