{{short description|American academic (born 1961)}} '''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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sites.lafayette.edu/symposium/kim-f-hall/|title=Kim F. Hall – Shakespeare, Race, and the Practical Humanities Symposium|website=sites.lafayette.edu|access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref>
== Education == Hall was educated at Hood College as an undergraduate, then undertook postgraduate study at the University of Pennsylvania,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://barnard.edu/headlines/kim-f-hall-lucyle-hook-professor-english-and-director-africana-studies|title=Kim F. Hall, Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Director of Africana Studies {{!}} Barnard College|website=barnard.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref> where she gained a PhD in sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.folger.edu/events/kim-hall-othello-was-my-grandfather-shakespeare-the-african-diaspora|title=Kim Hall: "Othello Was My Grandfather: Shakespeare in the African Diaspora"|last=etartanella|date=2015-07-28|website=Folger Shakespeare Library|language=en|access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref>
== 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kim F. Hall {{!}} Barnard College |url=https://barnard.edu/profiles/kim-f-hall |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=barnard.edu}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.socialdifference.columbia.edu/faculty-/kim-hall|title=Kim Hall|website=CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL DIFFERENCE|date=29 July 2017 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref> She assumed the Lucyle Hook Chair at Barnard in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://barnard.edu/headlines/kim-f-hall-lucyle-hook-professor-english-and-director-africana-studies|title=Kim F. Hall, Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Director of Africana Studies {{!}} Barnard College|website=barnard.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref>
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''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apps.neh.gov/publicquery/default.aspx?f=1&gn=FT-248888-16|title=NEH grant details: "Othello Was My Grandfather": Shakespeare and Race in the African Diaspora|website=securegrants.neh.gov|access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref> Also in 2016, she gave the Folger Institute's Shakespeare Anniversary lecture, on the same topic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-anniversary-lecture-series|title=Shakespeare Anniversary Lecture Series|last=efrench|date=2015-09-28|website=Folger Shakespeare Library|language=en|access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref> 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'.<ref>{{Cite web|last=University|first=Office of Web Communications, Cornell|title=The Paul Gottschalk Memorial Lecture by Kim F. Hall|url=https://events.cornell.edu/event/the_paul_gottschalk_memorial_lecture_with_kim_f_hall|access-date=2020-08-31|website=Cornell|language=en}}</ref>
== Selected publications == alt=Four women in straight, white dresses stand on a black stage with a row of candles at the front edge. Diaphanous curtains hang from the ceiling between the first and second and the third and fourth women. There are hanging light bulbs and a screen behind them reads "7. Desdemona/Othello". |thumb|A moment from the performance of Toni Morrison's ''Desdemona'' at Cornell University in 2023. Hall examines this play and Keith Hamilton Cobb’s ''American Moor'' in her chapter "Can You be White and Hear This?: The Racial Art of Listening in ''American Moor'' and ''Desdemona''" (2023). * ''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). * "'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. * (ed., with Christine Cynn) "Rewriting Dispersal: Africana Gender Studies." ''Scholar & Feminist Online''. 7.2 (Spring 2009). * (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 Peter Erickson) ''Shakespeare Quarterly.'' special issue on Early Modern Race Studies. 67.1 (2016). *"Can You Be White and Hear This?: The Racial Art of Listening in ''American Moor'' and ''Desdemona''", Ed. Arthur L. Little, Jr., In ''White People in Shakespeare'', 219–234. (London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023).
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