Oral History Interview, Emily Hall (2504)

Abstract

In her May 28, 2025 interview with Troy Reeves, Academic Staff Award winner Emily Hall discusses her career instructing students in writing theory and advocating for writing in the campus curriculum. Emily shares how she first came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her research focus as an English literature Ph.D. candidate at UW-Madison, and her work at the Writing Center as a graduate student. She talks extensively about her responsibilities as the director of both the Writing Across the Curriculum Program and the undergraduate Writing Fellows Program, including about how generative AI, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the evolution of technology have impacted her work. Other topics include her teaching methodology, her attitude toward change, her involvement in committees, her view on the treatment of academic staff, her reactions to winning an Academic Staff Award, and her memories of 9/11. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Academic Staff Award Winners project of the UW-Madison Archives & Records Management oral history collection.