Adam Hodges is a sociocultural linguist who received his PhD from the University of Colorado in 2008. Since then, he has taught at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University—including two years at Carnegie Mellon’s home campus in Pittsburgh and four years at Carnegie Mellon’s 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 forÌýAnthropology News; and his books includeÌýWhen Words Trump Politics: Resisting a Hostile Regime of LanguageÌý(2019, Stanford University Press) andÌýThe ‘War on Terror’ Narrative: Discourse and Intertextuality in the Construction and Contestation of Sociopolitical RealityÌý(2011, Oxford University Press).Ìý
His research articles have appeared inÌýAmerican Anthropologist,ÌýDiscourse & Society,ÌýJournal of Linguistic Anthropology,ÌýLanguage & Communication, andÌýLanguage in Society; and he has contributed to numerous teaching volumes that includeÌýLanguage and Social Justice in Practice,ÌýThe Handbook of Language and Politics,ÌýThe Handbook of Discourse Analysis, andÌýThe International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction.