Kira Hall is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, as well as director for the Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP), at the University of Colorado at Boulder.^[1][2]

The majority of Hall's work focuses on language in India and the United States, with special attention to organizations of gender and sexuality. A special focus of her work has been the linguistic and sociocultural practices of Hindi-speaking Hijras in northern India, a nonbinary group often discussed in the anthropological literature as a "third sex."

She is known for her contributions to research on language and identity within sociocultural linguistics, and especially the tactics of intersubjectivity framework developed with Mary Bucholtz.^[3]

Hall received her Ph.D. in linguistics in 1995 from the University of California at Berkeley,^[4] writing her dissertation under the supervision of Robin Lakoff, and has held academic positions at Stanford, Yale, and Rutgers Universities.

• College Scholar Award in 2014
• Provost Faculty Achievement Award in 2010
• Boulder Faculty Assembly Teaching Excellence Award in 2009
• Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award in 2004.

• President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology (2019–Present, as of 2021)
• Professor, CU Boulder Department of Linguistics
• Professor, CU Boulder Department of Anthropology
• CU Boulder Associate Chair Of Undergraduate Studies, department Of linguistics
• Affiliated faculty, CU Boulder College of Media, Communication, and Information (CMCI)
• Affiliated faculty, Cu Boulder Department Of Women And Gender Studies (WGST)
• Director, CU Boulder Program In Culture, Language, And Social Practice
• Director, CU Boulder Literacy Practicum

• Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary (1995) [1975]. Gender articulated: language and the socially constructed self. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415913997.
• Livia, Anna, and Kira Hall, eds. 1997. Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality. New York: Oxford University Press. [480 pp.]
• Hall, Kira, ed. 2007. Essays in Indian Folk Traditions: Collected Writings of Ved Prakash Vatuk. Meerut, India: Archana Publications. [472 pp.]
• Hall, Kira, ed. 2009. Studies in Inequality and Social Justice: Essays in Honor of Ved Prakash Vatuk. Meerut, India: Archana Publications. [449 pp.]
• Hall, Kira; Barrett, Rusty, eds. 2018. Language and sexuality. Oxford Handbooks Online. DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212926.001.0001
• Hall, Kira, ed. 2023. Lifelong Search for Home: Collected English Poems of Ved Prakash Vatuk. New Delhi: New World Publication. [390 pp]

• Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary (1995), "Introduction: Twenty years after Language and Woman's Place", in Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary (eds.), Gender articulated: language and the socially constructed self, New York: Routledge, pp. 1–24, ISBN 9780415913997. Pdf.

• Hall, Kira (1999). Performativity. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 9(1-2): 184-187. doi: 10.1525/jlin.1999.9.1-2.184.
• Bucholtz, Mary, and Kira Hall (2004). Theorizing Identity in Language and Sexuality Research. Language in Society 33(4): 469-515. doi: 10.1017/S0047404504334020
• Hall, Kira (2005). Intertextual Sexuality: Parodies of Class, Identity, and Desire in Liminal Delhi. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(1): 125-144. doi: 10.1525/jlin.2005.15.1.125.
• Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary (October 2005). "Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic approach". Discourse Studies. 7 (4–5): 585–614. doi:10.1177/1461445605054407. S2CID 27020925. Pdf.

• 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. [431 pp.]
• Hall, Kira, Jean Pierre Koenig, Michael Meacham, Sondra Reinman, and Laurel Sutton, eds. 1990. General Session and Parasession on the Legacy of Grice: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1989-1990. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, Inc. [559 pp.]
• Hall, Kira, Mary Bucholtz, and Birch Moonwomon, eds. 1992. Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Vol. 2. Berkeley: Berkeley Women & Language Group. [309 pp.]
• Hall, Kira, Mary Bucholtz, and Birch Moonwomon, eds. 1992. Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference, Vol. 1. Berkeley: Berkeley Women & Language Group. [299 pp.]

• Kira Hall's home page (as of June 2021)
  • Kira Hall's home page, archived 2006
• Program in Culture, Language and Social Practice