Kim F. Hall
Kim F. Hall (born 1961) is Lucyle Hook Professor of English and Professor of Africana Studies at Barnard College. She is an expert on black feminist studies, critical race theory, early modern and Renaissance literature. Education. Hall was educated at Hood College as an undergraduate, then undertook postgraduate study at the University of Pennsylvania, where she gained a PhD in sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature. Career. 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. She assumed the Lucyle Hook Chair at Barnard in 2010. 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". Also in 2016, she gave the Folger Institute's Shakespeare Anniversary lecture, on the same topic. 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'.