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Short Biography:
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.
Sociocultural Linguistics at CU Boulder:
The University of Colorado at Boulder is the home of the
interdisciplinary program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice
(CLASP). Faculty and graduate students affiliated
with the program come from a variety of departments and schools across
campus, including Anthropology, Communication, East Asian Languages and
Civilizations, French and Italian, Linguistics, Political Science,
Sociology, Spanish and Portuguese, and Speech, Language, and Hearing
Science. For a full description of the program and a list of
affiliated faculty, click
here.
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