Robert Hodge is an Australian academic, author, theorist and critic. While best known as a semiotician and critical linguist, his work encompasses a wide, interdisciplinary range of fields including cultural theory,

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Marxism Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...

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, post-colonialism, post-modernism and many other topics both within the humanities as well as science. He is currently a professor at the

University of Western Sydney Western Sydney University, formerly the University of Western Sydney, is an Australian multi-campus university in the Greater Western region of Sydney, Australia. The university in its current form was founded in 1989 as a federated network u ...

. Born in Perth, Western Australia in 1940, Hodge studied English at the University of Western Australia, and graduated with first class honours in 1961. He went to Cambridge University in 1965 on a scholarship and completed a BA in 1967 and a PhD in 1972 on Intellectual History. Thereafter his working career as a lecturer and later professor took him to the University of East Anglia, Norwich 1972–1977,

Murdoch University Murdoch University is a public university in Perth, Western Australia, with campuses also in Singapore and Dubai. It began operations as the state's second university on 25 July 1973, and accepted its first undergraduate students in 1975. Its n ...

, Perth from 1977 to 1993, and the

1993-. His line of research has taken him from studies in ancient Greek and literature, through to linguistics, to semiotics, and towards a range of topics around cultural, media, social and political criticism. Hodge's increasingly interdisciplinary approach has grown to include history,

, critical management studies,

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issues and others. Of his twenty five published books, the most well known includ
'Social Semiotics''Language as Ideology'
an
'Myths of Oz'
Other output includes numerous articles published in journals and speeches at international conferences. As well as his work as a researcher and author, Hodge has had a long teaching career, which includes the designing and co-ordinating of courses. In 1993 he set up the course structure for UWS Hawkesbury's humanities department. As a PhD supervisor Hodge has overseen some 40 doctorates. He currently lives in

Winmalee Winmalee is a town in New South Wales, Australia. Winmalee is located 77 kilometres west of Sydney, in the local government area of the City of Blue Mountains. At the , Winmalee had a population of 6,593. Originally known as North Springwood ...

, in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney with his wife Gabriela, and spends part of each year in Mexico City. He has three children and seven grandchildren.

Selected publications

* Hodge, B. and O'Carroll, J. (2006
Borderwork in Multicultural Australia
St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. * Hodge, B. and Coronado, G. (2004
El Hipertexto Multicultural en México Posmoderno
Mexico: Porrua-CIESAS. * Hodge, B. and Dimitrov, V. (2002
Social Fuzziology: Study of Fuzziness of Social Complexity
Germany: Springer Verlag. * Hodge, B. and Louie, K. (1998
The Politics of Chinese Language and Culture: The Art of Reading Dragons
London & New York: Routledge. * Hodge, B. and Kress, G. (1993
Language as Ideology
Rev. ed., London & New York: Routledge. * Hodge, B. and Mishra, V. (1991
Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind
St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. * Hodge, B. and Kress, G. (1988
Social Semiotics
London: Polity Press. * Hodge, B., Fiske, J. and Turner, G. (1987
Myths of Oz: Reading Australian Popular Culture
St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. * Hodge, B. and Tripp, D. (1986
Children and Television
London: Polity Press, London. Spanish Trans. by Valverde, G. (1988) Barcelona: Editorial Planeta..

External links

UWS staff page for Bob Hodge
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hodge, Bob Semioticians 1940 births Academics of the University of East Anglia Living people Western Sydney University faculty