<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear gender and language friends,<DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">I am writing with the very sad news that one of our dear gender and language colleagues, Anna Livia, passed away in her sleep last week at her home in the Bay Area, unexpectedly and to the great shock of many loved ones she left behind. Anna, who received her Ph.D. from the Department of French at UC Berkeley in 1995 and continued to teach there until just last week, was author and editor of numerous groundbreaking publications in the area of language, gender, and sexuality, as well as a brilliantly creative novelist, short story writer, and translator. Her publications in linguistics include _Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender_ (Oxford, 2001), the edited volume _Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality_ (Oxford, 1997), and numerous articles on the subject of linguistic gender in French. She is survived by her partner Patti Roberts, and her two children Emma and Asher.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">Those of us who knew and loved Anna feel a profound sense of loss. In addition to a keen and creative intellect, she had the biggest heart that ever was.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>More information regarding Anna's death can be found at the Department of French website, at <A href="http://french.berkeley.edu/news/news_main.php">http://french.berkeley.edu/news/news_main.php</A>, or in the Daily Californian at <A href="http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=25602">http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=25602</A>. A memorial service will be held in Berkeley on October 6th. Please feel free to contact me if you would like more information.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm so sorry to have to report this news.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>With great sadness,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Kira</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>***************</DIV><DIV>Kira Hall, Associate Professor</DIV><DIV>Director, Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP)</DIV><DIV>Departments of Linguistics and Anthropology</DIV><DIV>Campus Box 295</DIV><DIV>University of Colorado</DIV><DIV>Boulder, Colorado 80309-0295</DIV><DIV>Phone: (303)492-2912</DIV><DIV>Fax: (303)492-4416</DIV><DIV>Web: <A href="http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/kira_hall/">www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/kira_hall/</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>