Publications

Books and edited volumes

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 HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6(4): 397-460.
  • Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall, eds. (2008). Special journal issue 12(4): 401-545.

Journal articles and book chapters

Book reviews

    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: (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: (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: (by Clay Evans).
    • Interviewed for Quartz India article on the language of India’s hijra community, April 15, 2016: (by Zehra Rehman).
    • Interviewed for Al Jazeera article on language, sexuality, and virginity, March 2015: (by Amanda McCracken).
    • Interviewed for New Republic article on the discourse marker well actually, March 16, 2014: (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; ) 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 .” Aired on Boulder TV (local cable television channel 62), March 6, 2007.
    • , 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).