Kira Hall
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology
Ph.D. Linguistics 1995, University of California at Berkeley

Previous positions:
2000-2001, Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
1996-2000, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
1995-1996, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Rutgers-Camden

Mailing address:            Contact information:
Department of Linguistics
University of Colorado at Boulder
295 UCB
Boulder, Colorado  80309-0295
Campus office:  284 Hellems
Telephone: 303-492-2912
Fax:  303-492-4416
E-mail: kira.hall@colorado.edu
 

 

 



Short Biography:

Kira Hall received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley in 1995 and is currently Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Specializing in the area of language, gender, and sexuality, her major publications include 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). She is currently writing a book on the linguistic and sociocultural practices of Hindi-speaking hijras in northern India, a transgendered group often discussed in the anthropological literature as a “third sex.”

 

 

Sociocultural Linguistics at CU Boulder

The University of Colorado at Boulder is the home of a new interdisciplinary program in sociocultural linguistics, entitled CLASP (Culture, Language and Social Practice).   Faculty affiliated with the program come from a variety of departments across campus, including Anthropology, Communication, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, French and Italian, Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese, and Speech, Language, and Hearing Science.  For a full description of the program and a list of affiliated faculty, click here.

 

 

 

 



Publications:

Gender Articulated
(back cover)

 

Queerly Phrased
(back cover)