Kate Hale Wilson

Kate Hale Wilson joined the English Department in the fall of 1987, completing her doctorate at Michigan State University in the summer of 1994.  Dr. Hale Wilson's primary research interest lies in nineteenth-century British literature, culture and history.  During her years at UW-Eau Claire, she has developed teaching interests in women’s literature—particularly the Canadian author Margaret Atwood and fiction which portrays the female coming-of-age experience—and in texts created from the intersection of the political and the personal—particularly, the “literature of witness.” Since the late 1990s, she has been exploring her interest in "natural history," out of which grew the Environment, Society, & Culture minor.  Kate is a founding member of the UWEC Watershed Institute for Collaborative Environmental Studies.  At the state level, she serves as a member of the advisory group of the UW- System Initiative on the Liberal Arts & Sciences.  In 2007, Chancellor Levin-Stankevich appointed her to the new position of “Sustainability Fellow.”