Kira Hall

Kira Hall (born 1962, Birmingham, Alabama) is professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, as well as director for the Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP), at the University of Colorado at Boulder.[1][2]

Kira Hall
Academic background
Alma materUC Berkeley
Thesis (1995)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Linguistics and Department of Anthropology
Main interestsSociocultural linguistics
Notable worksLanguage and woman's place: text and commentaries
Notable ideasTactics of intersubjectivity
WebsiteUniversity of Colorado at Boulder

The majority of Hall's work focuses on language in India and the United States, with special attention to organizations of gender and sexuality. A special focus of her work has been the linguistic and sociocultural practices of Hindi-speaking Hijras in northern India, a transgender group often discussed in the anthropological literature as a "third sex."

She is known for her contributions to research on language and identity within sociocultural linguistics, and especially the tactics of intersubjectivity framework developed with Mary Bucholtz.[3]

Education

Hall received her Ph.D. in linguistics in 1995 from the University of California at Berkeley,[4] writing her dissertation under the supervision of Robin Lakoff, and has held academic positions at Stanford, Yale, and Rutgers Universities.

Designations

Awards
  • College Scholar Award in 2014
  • Provost Faculty Achievement Award in 2010
  • Boulder Faculty Assembly Teaching Excellence Award in 2009
  • Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2004.

Positions held
  • President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology (2019–Present, as of 2021)
  • Professor, CU Boulder Department of Linguistics
  • Professor, CU Boulder Department of Anthropology
  • CU Boulder Associate Chair Of Undergraduate Studies, department Of linguistics
  • Affiliated faculty, CU Boulder College of Media, Communication, and Information (CMCI)
  • Affiliated faculty, Cu Boulder Department Of Women And Gender Studies (WGST)
  • Director, CU Boulder Program In Culture, Language, And Social Practice
  • Director, CU Boulder Literacy Practicum

Selected publications

Books
  • Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary (1995) [1975]. Gender articulated: language and the socially constructed self. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415913997.

Book chapters
  • Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary (1995) [1975], "Introduction: Twenty years after Language and Woman's Place", in Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary (eds.), Gender articulated: language and the socially constructed self, New York: Routledge, pp. 1–24, ISBN 9780415913997. Pdf.
  • Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary (1995), "From Mulatta to Mestiza: Passing and the linguistic reshaping of ethnic identity", in Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary (eds.), Gender articulated: language and the socially constructed self, New York: Routledge, pp. 351–374, ISBN 9780415913997. Pdf.

Journal articles

Edited books
  • Hall, Kira; Barrett, Rusty, eds. 2018. Language and sexuality. Oxford Handbooks Online. DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212926.001.0001

References
  1. "Faculty". Department of Linguistics. 2014-08-05. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  2. "Faculty". Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP). 2018-06-04. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  3. "Kira Hall". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  4. "Hijra/Hijrin: Language and Gender Identity | Linguistics". lx.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-21.


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