Publications

Books and edited volumes

• Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall, eds. (under review). Parsing the Body: Language and the Social Life of Embodiment.
• Hall, Kira, and Rusty Barrett, eds. (in press). The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Hall, Kira, ed. (2009). Studies in Inequality and Social Justice: Essays in Honor of Ved Prakash Vatuk. Meerut, India: Archana Publications.
• Hall, Kira, ed. (2007). Essays in Indian Folk Traditions: Collected Writings of Ved Prakash Vatuk. Meerut, India: Archana Publications.
• Livia, Anna, and Kira Hall, eds. (1997). Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Hall, Kira, and Mary Bucholtz, eds. (1995). Gender Articulated: Language and the Socially Constructed Self. New York: Routledge.
• Hall, Kira, Mary Bucholtz, and Birch Moonwoman, eds. (1992). Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Vol. 1. Berkeley: Berkeley Women and Language Group.
• Hall, Kira, Mary Bucholtz, and Birch Moonwoman, eds. (1992). Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Vol. 2. Berkeley: Berkeley Women and Language Group.
• Hall, Kira, Jean Pierre Koenig, Michael Meacham, Sondra Reinman, and Laurel Sutton, eds. (1990). Legacy of Grice: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1989-1990. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, Inc.
• Hall, Kira, Michael Meacham, and Richard Shapiro, eds. (1989). General Session and Parasession on Theoretical Issues in Language Reconstruction: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1988-1989. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, Inc.

Special journal issues and colloquia

• Hall, Kira, Erez Levon, and Tommaso M. Milani, eds. (in progress). Special journal issue “Queering Language in Society: Advancing the Study of Text and Talk.” Language in Society.
• Goldstein, Donna M., and Kira Hall, eds. (2017). Special journal colloquium From Candidacy to Governance: Rethinking “The Hands of Donald Trump.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6(4): 397-460.
• Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall, eds. (2008). Special journal issue Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology: Strengthening the Connections. Journal of Sociolinguistics 12(4): 401-545.

Journal articles and book chapters

• Hall, Kira (in progress). Accidental Modernity: English, Sexuality, and Humor in Delhi’s Globalized Middle Class. Language in Society. (Contribution to special journal issue “Queering Language in Society.”)
• Hall, Kira (in progress). The Sexuality of Hinglish: Ethnographic Interventions into Language and Social Life. In Judith Baxter and Jo Angouri (eds.), Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality. London: Routledge.
• Hall, Kira, and Rusty Barrett (in progress). Language and Sexuality. In Kira Hall and Rusty Barrett (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality. New York: Oxford.
• Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (in progress). Language Unsexed: Discourse and Embodiment in Nonsexuality. In Kira Hall and Rusty Barrett (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality. New York: Oxford.
• Parish, Ayden and Kira Hall (in progress). Agency. In James Stanislaw and Asif Agha (eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.
• 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 (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.

Book reviews

• Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (2004). Review of Cameron and Kulick’s (2003), Language and Sexuality. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 10(4):928-929.
• Hall, Kira (1999). Snails and Tails or Sugar and Spice. Review of Elinor Maccoby’s The Two Sexes: Growing Up Apart, Coming Together. Science 285(5434):1681-82.
• Hall, Kira (1994). Tracks for Language. Review of Jackendoff’s Patterns in the Mind, Agar’s Language Shock, Major’s Juba to Jive, Silverman’s Black Talk, and Slung’s Hear! Hear! Sounds From Around the World. Appeared as a feature review in The Washington Post, Book World, July 24, 1994.

Professional newsletter articles

• Hall, Kira (2007). Society of Linguistic Anthropology Meeting Preview. Anthropology Newsletter, November. 62-63.

Chapters in edited conference proceedings

• 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). 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). Agency 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

• Hall, Kira, Donna Goldstein, and Matthew Ingram (in progress). The Hands of Donald Trump: Entertainment, Gesture, Spectacle. In Jana K. Rehak (ed.), Politics of Language. Under review at Routledge. [Reprint from Hall, Goldstein, and Ingram 2016]
• 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 Meyerhoff and Ehrlich (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

• Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (forthcoming). سب سے مقدم: سماجی و سقافتی لسانیات میں نئے میلانات (Sab se Muqaddam: Samaji o Saqafati Lisaniaat men nae Melanaat). Trans. Mohammed Sheeraz. Mayar 18 (peer-reviewed research journal published by International Islamic University Islamabad). [Urdu translation of Bucholtz and Hall 2008].

• Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (in progress). Todo lo anterior: Nuevas coaliciones en la lingüística sociocultural. Trans. Mayelo Zambrano. In Virginia Zavala, Susana de los Heros, and Mercedes Nino-Murcia (eds.), Sociolingüística cultural: teoría y práctica en las Américas. Universidad Catolica del Peru. [Spanish translation of Bucholtz and Hall 2008]

• Hall, Kira (in progress). Sexualidade Intertextual: Paródias de classe, identidade e desejo em Deli. Trans. Borba Rodrigo. In Rodrigo Borba (org.), Discursos transviados: por uma linguística queer. São Paulo: Parábola. [Brazilian Portuguese translation of Hall 2005]
• 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 interviews related to scholarly work

• Interviewed for Colorado Arts & Science Magazine article about lead article in HAU post-election forum on Trump’s use of “nostalgic racism,” 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).
• Interviewed for Colorado Public Radio about research on Donald Trump’s use of comedic humor and gesture 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).
• Interviewed for Colorado Arts & Science Magazine article about research on Donald Trump’s use of comedic humor and gesture in the Republican primaries, October 21, 2016: “Trump gestures infuse politics with comedic effects” (by Clay Evans).
• Interviewed for Colorado Arts & Science Magazine article about research on alleged case of mass hysteria 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).
• 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).