Bob Hodge (linguist)

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Robert “Bob” Hodge (born 25 April 1940 in Perth, Australia) is an Australian academic, author, theorist and critic. He is best known as a semiotician and critical linguist, but his work spans many areas, including cultural theory, media studies, chaos theory, Marxism, psychoanalysis, post-colonialism and post-modernism. He is a professor at the University of Western Sydney.

Hodge studied English at the University of Western Australia, graduating with first-class honours in 1961. He then went to Cambridge on a scholarship, earning a BA in 1967 and a PhD in 1972 in Intellectual History. His teaching career took him to the University of East Anglia (1972–1977), Murdoch University in Perth (1977–1993), and the University of Western Sydney (from 1993 onward). His research has moved from ancient Greek literature to linguistics, semiotics, and a broad range of cultural, media, social and political criticism, later including history, chaos theory, critical management studies and Aboriginal issues.

Hodge has published about 25 books; notable titles include Social Semiotics, Language as Ideology, and Myths of Oz, along with numerous articles and conference papers. He has played a major role in teaching, course design, and curriculum development, including establishing the humanities department at UWS Hawkesbury in 1993. As a PhD supervisor, he has guided around 40 doctoral students. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2001.

He lives in Winmalee 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.