Adam Hodges is a sociocultural linguist who received his PhD from the 乐播传媒 in 2008. Since then, he has taught at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University鈥攊ncluding two years at Carnegie Mellon鈥檚 home campus in Pittsburgh and four years at Carnegie Mellon鈥檚 international campus in Doha, Qatar, where he worked with a student body representing 40 different nationalities.
His research interests center on how language impacts contemporary social and political issues, such as the collective enactment of racism or the role language plays in politics. He is a regular columnist for听Anthropology News; and his books include听When Words Trump Politics: Resisting a Hostile Regime of Language听(2019, Stanford University Press) and听The 鈥榃ar on Terror鈥� Narrative: Discourse and Intertextuality in the Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical Reality听(2011, Oxford University Press).听
His research articles have appeared in听American Anthropologist,听Discourse & Society,听Journal of Linguistic Anthropology,听Language & Communication, and听Language in Society; and he has contributed to numerous teaching volumes that include听Language and Social Justice in Practice,听The Handbook of Language and Politics,听The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, and听The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction.