Kim F. Hall is the Lucyle Hook professor of English and professor of Africana Studies at Barnard College. She was born in 1961 in Baltimore. She is an expert on black feminist studies, critical race theory, early modern and Renaissance literature.[1]
Education
editHall was educated at Hood College as an undergraduate, then undertook postgraduate study at the University of Pennsylvania,[2] where she gained a PhD in sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature.[3]
Career
editKim F.Hall published her first book Things of Darkness in 1996 by Cornell University Press - she took a black feminist approach in interpreting Renaissance Literature.[4]
Hall taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, and Georgetown University, then held the Thomas F.X. Mullarkey Chair of Literature at Fordham University before becoming a member of the Barnard faculty in 2006.[5] She assumed the Lucyle Hook Chair at Barnard in 2010.[6]
In 2016 she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to carry out research for her book, "Othello Was My Grandfather": Shakespeare and Race in the African Diaspora.[7] Also in 2016, she gave the Folger Institute's Shakespeare Anniversary lecture, on the same topic.[8] In 2017 she delivered the Paul Gottschalk Memorial Lecture at Barnard College. Her lecture was entitled '"Intelligently organized resistance": Shakespeare in the diasporic politics of John E. Bruce'.[9]
Selected publications
edit- Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1995).
- Othello: Texts and Contexts (St. Martin's Press, 2006)
- (ed., with Peter Erickson) Shakespeare Quarterly. special issue on Early Modern Race Studies. 67.1 (2016).
- (ed., with Monica L. Miller and Yvette Christiansë) "The Worlds of Ntozake Shange." S & F Online. 12.3-13.1 (Summer 2014/Fall 2014)
- (ed., with Christine Cynn) "Rewriting Dispersal: Africana Gender Studies." Scholar & Feminist Online. 7.2 (Spring 2009).
- "'Use Words, Not Your Body': The hunger that has no name", Women and Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory 18:2 (2008): 169–180. Nominated for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Outstanding Article Award.
References
edit- ^ "Kim F. Hall – Shakespeare, Race, and the Practical Humanities Symposium". sites.lafayette.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
- ^ "Kim F. Hall, Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Director of Africana Studies | Barnard College". barnard.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
- ^ etartanella (2015-07-28). "Kim Hall: "Othello Was My Grandfather: Shakespeare in the African Diaspora"". Folger Shakespeare Library. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
- ^ "Kim F. Hall | Barnard College". barnard.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
- ^ "Kim Hall". CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL DIFFERENCE. 29 July 2017. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
- ^ "Kim F. Hall, Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Director of Africana Studies | Barnard College". barnard.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
- ^ "NEH grant details: "Othello Was My Grandfather": Shakespeare and Race in the African Diaspora". securegrants.neh.gov. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
- ^ efrench (2015-09-28). "Shakespeare Anniversary Lecture Series". Folger Shakespeare Library. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
- ^ University, Office of Web Communications, Cornell. "The Paul Gottschalk Memorial Lecture by Kim F. Hall". Cornell. Retrieved 2020-08-31.
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