Kira Hall

Kira Hall

Kira Hall is associate professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, as well as director for the [http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/kira_hall/clasp.html Program in Culture, Language and Social Practice] (CLASP), at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Hall received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1995 from the University of California at Berkeley, and has held previous academic positions at Stanford, Yale, and Rutgers Universities. She is well-known for her contributions to research on language and identity within sociocultural linguistics, and especially the tactics of intersubjectivity framework developed with Mary Bucholtz.

The majority of Hall's work focuses on language in India and the United States, with special attention to organizations of gender and sexuality. 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."

External links

* [http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/kira_hall/index.html Kira Hall's home page]


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