She is an expert on black feminist studies, critical race theory, early modern and Renaissance literature.
[1] 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] 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.
[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.
Her lecture was entitled '"Intelligently organized resistance": Shakespeare in the diasporic politics of John E.