her time at Royal Holloway, she set up and directed the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome. She resigned over a dispute about funding for classics after leading a campaign to prevent cuts to, or the closure of, the Royal Holloway classics department. She was quoted as saying "You cannot have a serious university without the study of the Greeks and Romans, as Terry Eagleton has said. It is a tragedy because we were really building something here".

When a lecturer at Oxford in 1996 Hall co-founded,