Publications (last updated August 2026)

Books and edited volumes

Special journal issues and colloquia

Journal articles and book chapters

  • Parish, Ayden, and Kira Hall (in press, 2026). Toward a Neurodiverse Sociocultural Linguistics. Language in Society.
  • Hall, Kira, and Ayden Parish (in press, 2026). Autistic Indexicality through Accents: Masking as a Higher Order Interaction Order. In Luke Fleming, Nicholas Harkness, and Constantine Nakassis (eds.), The Total Linguistic Fact: Linguistic Anthropology in the Wake of Michael Silverstein. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Henry, Jacob, and Kira Hall (2026). Performative Language. In Hilary Nesi and Petar Milin (eds.), Elsevier International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Vol 6: 448-452.
  • Borba, Rodrigo, Kira Hall, and Mie Hiramoto (2025). Stubborn Futures: Caring Against Anaesthetic Time. Gender and Language 19(3): 241-258.
  • Kosse, Maureen, and Kira Hall (2025). Sissy Hypno in a Trans-Affirming Register: Shifting Orders of Pornography Online. In Benedict J. L. Rowlett and Rodrigo Borba (eds.), Sex Work and Language. London: Routledge. 156-187.
  • Graham, Cynthia, Phillip Hammack, Liam Wignall; Editorial Signatories: Peter Aggleton, Feona Attwood, Travis Kong, Roisin Ryan-Flood, Ella Ben Hagai, Rodrigo Borba, Kira Hall, Mie Hiramoto, Rachel Calogero, John Elia, Angel Foster, Paz Galupo, Robert Garofalo, Ian Holloway, Terry Humphreys, Heiko Motschenbacher, Emma Pitchford, Emily Prior, DJ Williams, Michael Rayment, Damien Riggs, Caroline Sabin, Francisco Sy, Markie Twist, James Wadley, Kenneth J Zucker (2025). Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research. The Journal of Sex Research 62(7):1171-1172.
  • Barrett, Rusty, and Kira Hall (2024). Sexuality Discourses: Indexical Misrecognition and the Politics of Sex. Annual Review of Anthropology53: 127-146.
  • Kira Hall, and Mie Hiramoto (2024). Foreword: Trans/formations in Language, Gender and Sexuality Research. Gender and Language 18(3): 199-206. 
  • Hall, Kira (2023). Between Unjust Worlds: The English Poems of Ved Prakash Vatuk. In Kira Hall (ed.), Lifelong Search for Home: Collected English Poems of Ved Prakash Vatuk. New Delhi: New World Publication. ix-xxii.
  • Barrett, Rusty, and Kira Hall (2023). Closet Monsters: Naysayers, Gatekeepers, and Bullies in Queer and Trans Linguistics. In Tyler Kibbey (ed.), Linguistics Out of the Closet: The Interdisciplinarity of Gender and Sexuality in Language Science. Berlin: De Gruyter. 259-275.
  • Hall, Kira, and Jenny L. Davis (2021). Ethnography and the Shifting Semiotics of Gender and Sexuality. In Jo Angouri and Judith Baxter (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality. London: Routledge. 93-107.
  • Goldstein, Donna M., and Kira Hall (2021). Darwin’s Hug: Ideologies of Gesture in the Science of Human Exceptionalism. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 11(2): 693-712. (Selected in 2022 by HAU Editorial Collective as “best article published in the journal in 2021”).
  • Hall, Kira (2021). Language in the Middle: Class and Sexuality on the Hinglish Continuum. Theme Series on “Rethinking Class in Sociolinguistics.” Journal of Sociolinguistics 25(3): 303-323.
  • Hall, Kira, Rodrigo Borba, and Mie Hiramoto (2021). Language and Gender. In James Stanlaw (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell. 892-913.
  • Parish, Ayden, and Kira Hall (2021). Agency. In James Stanlaw (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell. 16-23. 
  • Hall, Kira, Rodrigo Borba, and Mie Hiramoto (2021). Relocating Power: The Feminist Potency of Language, Gender and Sexuality Research. Gender and Language 15(1): 1-10.
  • Hiramoto, Mie, Rodrigo Borba, and Kira Hall (2020). Hope in a Time of Crisis. Gender and Language 14(4): 347-357.
  • Borba, Rodrigo, Kira Hall, and Mie Hiramoto (2020). Feminist Refusal Meets Enmity. Gender and Language 14(1): 1-7.
  • Hall, Kira, Erez Levon, and Tommaso M. Milani (2019). Navigating Normativities: Gender and Sexuality in Text and Talk. Language in Society 48(4): 481-489.
  • Hall, Kira (2019). Middle Class Timelines: Ethnic Jokes and Sexual Modernity in Delhi. Language in Society 48(4): 491-517.
  • Goldstein, Donna M., and Kira Hall (2017). Postelection Surrealism and Nostalgic Racism in the Hands of Donald Trump. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6(4): 397-406.
  • Hall, Kira, Donna M. Goldstein, and Matthew Bruce Ingram (2016). The Hands of Donald Trump: Entertainment, Gesture, Spectacle. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6(2): 71-100.
  • Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (2016). Embodied Sociolinguistics. In Nikolas Coupland (ed.), Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 173-197.
  • Zimman, Lal, and Kira Hall (2016). Language, Gender, and Sexuality. [22,000-word peer-reviewed field statement on central developments and texts.] Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. Ed. Mark Aronoff. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Goldstein, Donna, and Kira Hall (2015). Mass Hysteria in Le Roy, New York: How Brain Experts Materialized Truth and Outscienced Environmental Inquiry. American Ethnologist 4(24): 640-657.
  • Hall, Kira, and Chad Nilep (2015). Code-Switching, Identity, and Globalization. In Deborah Tannen, Heidi E. Hamilton, and Deborah Schiffrin (eds.), Handbook of Discourse Analysis, 2nd edition. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 597-619.
  • Hall, Kira (2014). Hypersubjectivity: Language, Anxiety, and Indexical Dissonance in Globalization. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24(2): 259-270.
  • Hall, Kira (2013). “It’s a Hijra!” Queer Linguistics Revisited. Discourse & Society 24(5): 634-642.
  • Hall Kira, and Mary Bucholtz (2013). Epilogue: Facing Identity. Journal of Politeness Research 9(1): 121-130.
  • Zimman, Lal, and Kira Hall (2010). Language, Embodiment, and the “Third Sex.” In Dominic Watt and Carmen LLamas (eds.), Language and Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 166-178.
  • Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (2010). Locating Identity in Language. In Dominic Watt and Carmen Llamas (eds.), Language and Identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 18-28.
  • Hall, Kira (2009). A Poet’s Justice. In Kira Hall (ed.), Studies in Inequality and Social Justice. Meerut, India: Archana Publications. xxvii-xlvi.
  • Hall, Kira (2009). Boys’ Talk: Hindi, Moustaches, and Masculinity in New Delhi. In Pia Pichler and Eva Eppler (eds.), Gender and Spoken Interaction. Palgrave Macmillan. 139-162.
  • Hall, Kira (2009). A Poet and a Rebel: A Tribute to Ved Prakash Vatuk. Siliconeer: A General Interest Magazine for South Asians. 10(7): 18-24.
  • Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (2008). All of the Above: New Coalitions in Sociocultural Linguistics. Journal of Sociolinguistics 12(4): 1-31.
  • Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (2008). Finding Identity: Theory and Data. Multilingua 27(1-2): 151-163.
  • Hall, Kira (2007). On Life, Language, and Lore: The Writings of Ved Prakash Vatuk. In Kira Hall (ed.), Essays in Indian Folk Traditions: Collected Writings of Ved Prakash Vatuk. Meerut, India: Archana Publications (U.S. Publisher, Berkeley, CA: Folklore Institute). vii-xxvii.
  • Hall, Kira (2007), X (Rated). In Fedwa Malti-Douglas (ed.), Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference. 1561-1562
  • Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (2006). Gender, Sexuality, and Language. In Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Volume 2. Oxford, UK: Elsevier. 756-758
  • Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (2005). Identity and Interaction: A Sociocultural Linguistic Approach. Discourse Studies 7(4-5): 585-614.
  • Hall, Kira (2005). Intertextual Sexuality: Parodies of Class, Identity, and Desire in Liminal Delhi. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(1): 125-144.
  • Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (2004). Theorizing Identity in Language and Sexuality Research. Language in Society 33(4): 501-547.
  • Hall, Kira (2004). Language and Marginalized Places. In Mary Bucholtz (ed.), Language and Woman’s Place: Text and Commentaries. New York: Oxford University Press. 171-177.
  • Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (2004). Language and Identity. In Alessandro Duranti (ed.), A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 268-294.
  • Hall, Kira (2003). Exceptional Speakers: Contested and Problematized Gender Identities. In Miriam Meyerhoff and Janet Holmes (eds.), Handbook of Language and Gender. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 352-380.
  • Hall, Kira (2002). “Unnatural” Gender in Hindi. In Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bussman (eds.), Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 133-162.
  • Hall, Kira (2000). Performativity. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9(1-2): 184-187.
  • Hall, Kira (1997). “Go Suck Your Husband’s Sugarcane!” Hijras and the Use of Sexual Insult. In Anna Livia and Kira Hall (eds.), Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press. 430-460.
  • Livia, Anna, and Kira Hall (1997). “It’s a Girl!” Bringing Performativity Back to Linguistics. In Anna Livia and Kira Hall (eds.), Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press. 3-18.
  • Hall, Kira, and Veronica O’Donovan (1996). Shifting Gender Positions Among Hindi-speaking Hijras. In Victoria Bergvall, Janet Bing, and Alice Freed (eds.), Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Practice. London: Longman. 228-266.
  • Hall, Kira (1996). Cyberfeminism. In Susan Herring (ed.), Computer-mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social, and Cross-cultural Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 147-170.
  • Hall, Kira (1996). Lexical Subversion in the Hijra Community. Gender and Belief Systems: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkeley: Berkeley Women and Language Group. 279-292.
  • Hall, Kira (1995). Lip Service on the Fantasy Lines. In Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz (eds.), Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge. 183-216.
  • Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (1995). Twenty years after Language and Woman’s Place. In Kira Hall and Mary Bucholtz (eds.), Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge. 1-22.
  • Hall, Kira (1995). A Third-sex Subversion of a Two-gender System. In Susanne Gahl, Andy Dolbey, and Christopher Johnson (eds.), Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society. 220-233.
  • Hall, Kira (1994). Bodyless Pragmatics. In Mary Bucholtz, Anita Liang, Laurel Sutton, and Caitlin Hines (eds.), Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkeley: Berkeley Women and Language Group. 260-277.
  • Hall, Kira (1992). Women’s Language for Sale on the Fantasy Lines. In Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz, and Birch Moonwomon (eds.), Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkeley: Berkeley Women and Language Group. 207-222.
  • Hall, Kira, and Beth Daniels (1992). “It’s Rather Like Embracing a Textbook”: The Linguistic Representation of the Female Psychoanalyst in American Film. In Kira Hall, Mary Bucholtz, and Birch Moonwomon (eds.), Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkeley: Berkeley Woman and Language Group. 223-239
  • Hall, Kira (1990). Agentivity and the Animacy Hierarchy in Kashaya. In J.E. Redden (ed.), Papers from the 1990 Hokan-Penutian Languages Workshop. Salinas, CA: Coyote Press. From Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Occasional Papers in Linguistics 15:118-135.

Reprints of scholarly work

  • Graham, Cynthia, Phillip Hammack, Liam Wignall; Editorial signatories: Peter Aggleton, Feona Attwood, Travis Kong, Roisin Ryan-Flood, Ella Ben Hagai, Rodrigo Borba, Kira Hall, et al. (2025). Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research. Archives of Sexual Behavior 54: 1691-1692. [Reprint from Graham et al. 2025].
  • Goldstein, Donna M., and Kira Hall (2023). Darwin’s Hug: Ideologies of Gesture in the Science of Human Exceptionalism. Déjà Lu 11, World Council of Anthropological Associations. Open access reprint from Goldstein and Hall 2021 as “best article published in 2021” in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 
  • Hall, Kira (2020). X (Rated). Encylopedia.com. Published at https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/x-rated. [Reprint from Hall 2000]
  • Hall, Kira (2016). “Unnatural” Gender in Hindi. In Susan Blum (ed.), Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press. [Reprint from Hall 2002]
  • Hall, Kira (2014). Exceptional Speakers: Contested and Problematic Gender Identities. In Ehrlich, Meyerhoff, and Holmes (eds.), Language and Gender Handbook, 2nd edition. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 220-239. [Revised reprint from Hall 2003]
  • Hall, Kira (2012). “Unnatural” Gender in Hindi. In Susan Blum (ed.), Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press. 418-433. [Reprint from Hall 2002]
  • Hall, Kira (2011). Boys' Talk: Hindi, Moustaches, and Masculinity in New Delhi. In Jennifer Coates (ed.), Language and Gender Reader, 2nd ed. Wiley Blackwell. 384-400. [Reprint from Hall 2009]
  • Hall, Kira (2011). Intertextual Sexuality: Parodies of Class, Identity, and Desire in Liminal Delhi. In Bambi Schieffelin and Paul Garrett (eds.), Anthropological Linguistics: Theories and Practices. 648-666. New York: Routledge. [Reprint from Hall 2004]
  • Hall, Kira (2009). Lip Service on the Fantasy Lines. In Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski (eds.), The New Sociolinguistics Reader, 2nd ed. Palgrave: Macmillan. 229-249. [Reprint from Hall 1995]
  • Hall, Kira (2009). Hijras and the Use of Sexual Insult. In Kira Hall (ed.), Studies in Inequality and Social Justice: Essays in Honor of Ved Prakash Vatuk. Meerut, India: Archana Publications. [Revised reprint from Hall 1997, with introduction]
  • Hall, Kira (2007). Lip Service on the Fantasy Lines. In Susan Ehrlich (ed.), Language and Gender, Vol. 3: Social Constructionist Approaches to Language and Gender. New York: Routledge. [Reprint from Hall 1995]
  • Hall, Kira, and Veronica O’Donovan (2007). Shifting Gender Positions among Hindi-speaking Hijras. In Susan Ehrlich (ed.), Language and Gender, Vol. 3: Social Constructionist Approaches to Language and Gender. New York: Routledge. [Reprint from Hall and O’Donovan 1996]
  • Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (2007). Theorizing Identity in Language and Sexuality Research. In Susan Ehrlich (ed.), Language and Gender, Vol. 4: Contemporary Debates. New York: Routledge. [Reprint from Bucholtz and Hall 2004]
  • Hall, Kira (2001). Performativity. In Alessandro Duranti (ed.), Key Terms in Language and Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell. [Reprint from Hall 1999]
  • Hall, Kira (1998). Lip Service on the Fantasy Lines. In Deborah Cameron (ed.), The Feminist Critique of Language. New York: Routledge. 321-342. [Reprint from Hall 1995]

Translated reprints of scholarly work

  • Hall, Kira (2024). अन्यायपूर्ण दुनियाओं के बीच, वेद प्रकाश वटुक की अंग्रेजी कविताएँ [Between Unjust Worlds: The English Poems of Ved Prakash Vatuk]. Trans. Rajwanti Mann. New World Publication’s monthly magazineSamakaal, November. [Hindi translation of Hall 2023] 
  • Hall, Kira (2020). Sexualidade intertextual: Paródias de classe, identidade e desejo nas fronterias de Deli. Trans. Pedro Rieger and Rodrigo Borba. In Rodrigo Borba (ed.), Discursos transviados: por uma linguística queer. São Paulo: Cortez Editora. 283-315. [Brazilian Portuguese translation of Hall 2005]
  • Hall, Kira (2020). कवि का न्याय [A Poet’s Justice]. Trans. Ved Prakash Vatuk. In Shribhagwan Dixit (ed.), सात्विक आक्रोश के जन-कवि वेद प्रकाश 'वटुक' [A People’s Poet of Pure Anger: Ved Prakash Vatuk]. Meerut: Nirupama Prakashan. 118-127. [Hindi translation of Hall 2009]
  • Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (2020). Nuevas coaliciones en la lingüística sociocultural. Trans. Mayelo Zambrano. In Mercedes Niño-Murcia, Virginia Zavala, and Susana de los Heros (eds.), Hacia una sociolingüística crítica: desarrollos y debates. Lima: Instituto of Estudios Peruanos. 71-114. [Spanish translation of Bucholtz and Hall 2008]
  • Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (2020). سب سے مقدم: سماجی و ثقافتی لسانیات میں نئے میلانات (Sab se Muqaddam: Samaji o Saqafati Lisaniaat men nae Melanaat). Trans. Muhammad Numan and Fahim Javed. Me’yar 22: 39-78. [Urdu translation of Bucholtz and Hall 2008]. 
  • Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (2017). Jezik i identitet. Jat – Časopis Studenata Kroatistike (Journal of Croatian Students) Br. 3: 236-275. Trans. Lorena Čačković. [Croatian translation of Bucholtz and Hall 2004]
  • Livia, Anna, and Kira Hall (2010). “É uma menina!” A volta da performatividade a linguística. In Ana Cristina Ostermann and Beatriz Fontana (eds.), Linguagem, Gênero, Sexualidade: Clássicos Traduzidos. 109-128. Trans. Rodrigo Borba and Cristiane Maria Schnack. [Brazilian Portuguese translation of Livia and Hall 1997]
  • Hall, Kira (2002). Performativita/Performativity. In Alessandro Duranti (ed.), Culture e discorso. Un lessico per le scienze umane. Roma: Meltemi. 256-261. [Italian translation of Hall 2000]
  • Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (1999). “Frauensprache” im Wandel feministischer Theorien. Das Argument: Zeitschrift für Philosophie and Sozialwissenschaften 229(1): 47-52. [German translation of Bucholtz and Hall 1995]

Media recognition and interviews related to scholarly work

  • Ranked by Academic Influence as #5 in “Influential Women in Anthropology from the Last 10 Years” and #44 anthropologist overall in the US, July 8, 2023: https://academicinfluence.com/rankings/people/women-scholars/anthropology
  • Interviewed by CU Connections for article on Distinguished Professor award, November 10, 2022: “Seven faculty members join ranks of CU Distinguished Professors: High honor recognizes excellence in research, education, service”: https://connections.cu.edu/stories/seven-faculty-members-join-ranks-cu-distinguished-professors.
  • Interviewed by Vox.com for article on rising uses of the term bitch since the 19th amendment, August 19, 2020: “Use of the word ‘bitch’ surged after woman’s suffrage” (by Li Zhou): https://www.vox.com/21365241/19th-amendment-womens-suffrage-backlash.
  • Interviewed by Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine for article on language and digital media, February 6, 2020: “In your texts, using (or nixing) a period conveys your mood? Linguist says the digital age is changing communication in ways that enrich rather than degrade communication” (by Laura Hiserodt): https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2020/02/06/your-texts-using-or-nixing-period-conveys-your-mood.
  • Interviewed by Colorado Public Radio News for article on language in digital media, October 30, 2019: “Teens aren’t breaking language, they’re adding to it” (by Ashley Dean): https://www.cpr.org/2019/10/30/teens-arent-breaking-language-theyre-adding-to-it/.
  • Interviewed by Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine for article on the Literacy Practicum, January 2019: “CU Boulder literacy practicum a boon to students and community members alike” (by Clay Evans): https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2019/01/20/literacy-program-helps-teachers-and-students-prof-says.
  • Interviewed by Colorado Arts & Science Magazine for article about Trump’s discourse on race, December 4, 2017: “Is America heading back to the 50s? Professors of anthropology and linguistics see Trump’s rise as driven, in part, by ‘nostalgic racism’” (by Clay Evans): www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2017/11/29/america-heading-back-50s.
  • Interviewed by Colorado Public Radio about research on Donald Trump’s use of comedic insult in the Republican primaries, November 18, 2016: “CU Anthropologists: How Mocking Opponents Helped Propel Trump to the White House” (Kira Hall speaks with Nathan Heffel): http://www.cpr.org/news/story/how-trumps-style-gestures-helped-him-win-the-white-house.
  • Interviewed by Colorado Arts & Science Magazine for article about research on Trump’s use of comedic insult in the Republican primaries, October 21, 2016: “Trump gestures infuse politics with comedic effects” (by Clay Evans): http://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2016/10/21/trump-gestures-infuse-politics-comedic-effects.
  • Interviewed by Colorado Arts & Science Magazine for article about research on mass hysteria case in Le Roy, New York, February 17, 2016: “CU researchers find outmoded psychology, dubious brain science, and ‘the banality of toxicity’ at heart of ‘mass hysteria’ case” (by Clay Evans): https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2016/02/17/hysteria-theory-short-science.
  • Interviewed for Quartz India article on the language of India’s hijra community, April 15, 2016: “The secret language of South Asia’s transgender community” (by Zehra Rehman).
  • Interviewed for Al Jazeera article on language, sexuality, and virginity, March 2015: “Are we entitled to sex?” (by Amanda McCracken).
  • Interviewed for New Republic article on the discourse marker well actually, March 16, 2014: “’Actually’ is the most futile, overused word on the internet” (by Claire Carusillo).
  • Interviewed by ABC News Primetime for a news episode on India’s hijra community, November 5, 2008.
  • Interviewed for Southern Voice on GLBQT terminology, March 14, 2008: “Does Gay ‘Diversity’ Require New Terms?”
  • Interviewed for CBC Radio 1 program on the “gay voice,” September 14, 2007: “And Sometimes Y.” Broadcast nationally in Canada on CBC Radio 1 and in the U.S. on Sirius Satellite Radio.
  • Interviewed for Greater Portland Community Radio (90.9; www.wmpg.org) on the life and work of French linguist Anna Livia, September 27, 2007. 30-minute appearance on the Lesbian History Grove segment.
  • Interviewed by NewsTeam Boulder for news article and television program “Wikipedia Still Considered Legit Source at CU.” Aired on CU Boulder TV (local cable television channel 62), March 6, 2007.
  • Interviewed and consulted for Bombay Eunuch, award-winning documentary on a community of hijras in Bombay. Appear five times in film as academic expert on India’s hijras. Directed and produced by Shawn MacDonald, Alexandra Shiva, and Michelle Gucovsky. The film received positive reviews in a number of forums, including New York Times, Newsweek, The New Yorker, and Cultural Anthropologist.
  • Interviewed for the Longmont Daily Times on the subject of identity terminology for Hispanic Americans, Fall 2003.
  • Interviewed for abcNEWS.com on the subject of hijra politicians in India for article, November 29, 2000: “Political Outing: Once Ostracized, India’s Secretive Eunuchs Get Franchised” (by Leela Jacinto).
  • Interviewed for the millennial issue of Penthouse on linguistic terminology for sexual practices, January 2000, p. 144 (by Jennifer Matlack).