Women's Studies Coordinator, University of Winnipeg, a feminist, a reader and a writer. Her childhood was spent on the prairies and the high country of the Rockies. Fulton grew up in Montana, did her undergraduate degree at Stanford University and her graduate degrees at the University of Western Ontario.

Fulton's doctoral dissertation was on William Faulkner. From 1987 to 1992 Fulton was the first Margaret Laurence Chair of Women's Studies. After, She joined the English Department in 1992, and her work has developed feminist perspectives in literary studies.

Her interest in the ways women have been described in literature and the ways women write ourselves has never been simply academic. Fulton finds her communities among activists, artists, writers and things that grow - whether in gardens or in cracks. She likes to learn about people and books through each other. In the classroom Fulton continues that learning with students, working cooperatively to create a learning community.

Teaching new courses - in Women's Studies, in Women and Literature, in Lesbian and Gay Literature, in Critical Theory - challenges the limits on who is included in literary culture. From 1986 to 1996 Fulton was a member of the publishing collective for Contemporary Verse 2, a feminist poetry journal.

She has also worked as an editor with Herizons, the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal and an electronic journal Feminist Stratégies Féministes.

"I call it not a 'coming out', but a 'coming to terms' - accepting what I was discovering about myself joyfully and finding the language to name it. Since most of the terms had been used to ferry hatred and fear, we had to take them back, clean them up, and fill them with our own meanings. We do that together. On Pride Day, I walk with the people who help each other create the courage and commitment to be part of a language and a community."