Shakespeare Anniversary Lecture Series: Kim F. Hall by FolgerShakespeareLibrary published on 2016-08-23T17:46:07Z Dr. Kim F. Hall discusses Afrodiasporic appropriations of "Othello," from the founding of America to the modern day, as part of the Shakespeare Anniversary Lecture Series presented by Folger Institute, commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-anniversary-lecture-series Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Dr. Hall holds a doctorate in sixteenth and seventeenth century English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Her book, Things of Darkness, published in 1996 by Cornell University Press, used a black feminist approach to interpret Renaissance literature. This groundbreaking work on racial discourses in sixteenth and seventeenth century Britain helped generate a new wave of scholarship on race in Shakespeare and Renaissance/Early Modern texts. Her second book, Othello: Texts and Contexts (Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2006) offers readers visual and verbal textual materials that illuminate themes in Shakespeare’s play Othello: The Moor of Venice. She is currently Lucyle Hook Chair and Professor of English and Africana Studies at Barnard College. Genre Learning