Robert "Bob" Hodge is an Australian academic, author, theorist and critic.
Education
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 Bachelor in 1967 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1972 on Intellectual History.
Career
He is currently a professor at the University of Western Sydney. Thereafter his working career as a lecturer and later professor took him to the University of East Anglia, Norwich 1972-1977, Murdoch University, Perth from 1977–1993, and the University of Western Sydney since 1993. Hodge"s increasingly interdisciplinary approach has grown to include history, chaos theory, critical management studies, Aboriginal issues and others
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 Doctor of Philosophy supervisor Hodge has overseen some 40 doctorates.
Politics
While best known as a semiotician and critical linguist, his work encompasses a wide, interdisciplinary range of fields including cultural theory, media studies, chaos theory, Marxism, psychoanalysis, post-colonialism, post-modernism and many other topics both within the humanities as well as science. 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. Of his twenty five published books, the most well known include "Social Semiotics", "Language as Ideology", and "Myths of Oz".
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, Review educated, London & New York: Routledge.