Amy Hodges Hamilton
Director of Undergraduate Core Curriculum & Professor of English and Global Honors
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Biography
Amy Hodges Hamilton (Ph.D., Florida State University) is a Director of Undergraduate Core Curriculum and professor of English and Global Honors at Belmont University. Amy's research and teaching interests center on personal writing, memoir, trauma theory, reflective practice and pedagogy, and healing and the arts in community-based settings. Before joining the faculty at Belmont, Amy founded the Writing Studio at Vanderbilt University. Over the last ten years, she has served as the Senior Capstone Coordinator, as a member of the Bell Core Leadership and Assessment Team, and as the Faculty Confidential Advocate for the Title IX office. She also served as Writer in Residence at the Seamus Heaney Center at Queens University Belfast in Fall 2019 and led the Belmont Global Honors program to Queens University Belfast in Spring 2023. Amy received the Presidential Academic Achievement award for the 2018-2019 academic year and was awarded the 2023 Harold Love Outstanding Community Service Award by the State of Tennessee.