Kim F. Hall
Kim F. Hall is the
Education
Hall 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
Kim 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
- 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
- ^ "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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