Kira Hall, PhD
Affiliations: | Linguistics and Anthropology | University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States |
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"Kira Hall"Bio:
Kira Hall received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1995 from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently Associate Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She held previous faculty positions at Rutgers University, Yale University, and Stanford University. Her research, situated within the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, focuses on issues of language and social identity in India and United States, particularly as they materialize within hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic class. Among her publications are the edited volumes Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self (with Mary Bucholtz, Routledge 1995) and Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality (with Anna Livia, Oxford 1997), as well as two recently published volumes recognizing the life and work of Hindi poet, linguist, and folklorist Ved Prakash Vatuk. Her articles, many of which discuss the cultural and linguistic practices of India’s hijra and koti communities, have appeared in a number of prominent collections and sociolinguistic journals, including Discourse Studies, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and Language and Society. Her book in progress is based on extended ethnographic research among Hindi- and English-speaking groups associated with sexual alterity in northern India, and in particular New Delhi. Entitled When Voices Travel: Language, Sexuality, and Modernity in Contemporary India, Hall’s ethnography analyzes the sociocultural and linguistic impact of globalization, with special attention to localized articulations of nationalism and modernity.
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Cross-listing: Anthropology Tree
Parents
Sign in to add mentorRobin T. Lakoff | grad student | 1995 | UC Berkeley | |
(Hijra/Hijrin: Language and Gender Identity) |
Children
Sign in to add traineeAdam Hodges | grad student | 2008 | CU Boulder |
Lori S. Heintzelman | grad student | 2009 | CU Boulder |
Chad Nilep | grad student | 2009 | CU Boulder |
Weldu M. Weldeyesus | grad student | 2009 | CU Boulder |
Susanne Stadlbauer | grad student | 2012 | CU Boulder |
Lal Zimman | grad student | 2006-2012 | CU Boulder |
Jenny L. Davis | grad student | 2013 | CU Boulder |
Marcus Avelar | grad student | 2012-2019 | CU Boulder |
Collaborators
Sign in to add collaboratorMary Bucholtz | collaborator | UC Santa Barbara | ||
(they co-developed the tactics of intersubjectivity framework; published Gender Articulated together) | ||||
Donna M. Goldstein | collaborator | CU Boulder (Anthropology Tree) | ||
Lal Zimman | collaborator | UC Santa Barbara |
Publications
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Hall K, Levon E, Milani TM. (2019) Navigating normativities: Gender and sexuality in text and talk Language in Society. 48: 481-489 |
Hall K. (2019) Middle class timelines: Ethnic humor and sexual modernity in Delhi Language in Society. 48: 491-517 |
Goldstein DM, Hall K. (2017) Postelection surrealism and nostalgic racism in the hands of Donald Trump Hau: the Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 7: 397-406 |
Hall K, Goldstein DM, Ingram MB. (2016) The hands of Donald Trump: Entertainment, gesture, spectacle Hau: the Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 6: 71-100 |
Goldstein DM, Hall K. (2015) Mass hysteria in Le Roy, New York: How brain experts materialized truth and outscienced environmental inquiry American Ethnologist. 42: 640-657 |
Hall K. (2014) Hypersubjectivity: Language, anxiety, and indexical dissonance in globalization Journal of Asian Pacific Communication. 24: 261-273 |
Hall K. (2013) Commentary I: ‘It’s a hijra!’ Queer linguistics revisited: Discourse & Society. 24: 634-642 |
Bucholtz M, Hall K. (2008) Finding identity: Theory and data Multilingua. 27: 151-163 |
Bucholtz M, Hall K. (2008) All of the above: New coalitions in sociocultural linguistics Journal of Sociolinguistics. 12: 401-431 |
Bucholtz M, Hall K. (2005) Identity and interaction: A sociocultural linguistic approach Discourse Studies. 7: 585-614 |