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Pamela M. Hall Associate Professor Office: S212 Callaway Memorial Center Mailing address: Department of Religion Emory University Mailstop: 1535/002/1AA 537 Kilgo Cir., Callaway S214 Atlanta, Georgia 30322   404-727-0102 (Office) 404-727-7597 (Fax) pmhall@emory.edu (Email)

Pamela M. Hall, Associate Professor of Religion;Theological Studies faculty in Emory’s Graduate Division of Religion; associated faculty in Ethics and Society of the GDR.

Pam Hall works in the areas of ethics, theological anthropology, and theology and literature. More specifically, she pursues ways to understand the nature and experience of the self with the help of humanistic work in philosophy, theology, and literature.  She is drawn to these questions: How can we understand selfhood as a dynamic process? How does this guide and change our conceptions of the virtues and their work? And --what are the richest and most helpful ways to think about these questions? This leads her to consider imagination’s role in the moral life and why literature, and art more broadly, is crucial for reflection on the human.  She has written on Aquinas’s ethics (Narrative and the Natural Law: An Interpretation of Thomistic Ethics, University of Notre Dame Press, 1994), on the virtues according to MacIntyre, Murdoch, and Nussbaum, and she is currently drafting a book on saints and the project of selfhood, with the help and challenge of novels about saints. 

Dr. Hall teaches graduate seminars on Narrative and Female Selfhoods (texts within philosophy, memoir, and the novel) and on recent virtue ethics; she is preparing to teach a graduate seminar on moral imagination and the novel.  On the undergraduate level, Dr. Hall teaches the courses "Literature of the Soul," "Literature and Religion," and "Ethics: Human Goodness".

Dr. Hall received the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities from Emory University in 1992, and she was awarded the Massee-Martin/NEH Distinguished Teaching Chair in Emory College for the term of 1998-2002. She was Chair of the Department of Women’s Studies from 2003-06. She has served on the national Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in the Profession of the American Philosophical Association.

When she is not writing, teaching, or serving, Dr. Hall also likes to bird watch, garden, and work with her two dogs.  These things too are part of a good life.