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Brief Biography In the past Dr. Kress has served as Dean of Communication
and Cultural Studies (South Australian College of Advanced Education),
Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and social Studies (New South
Wales Institute of Technology, Sydney), and Assistant Vice-Chancellor
(University of Technology, Sydney). Currently he is Head of Culture,
Communications & Societies, London Institute of Education,
University of London. Dr. Kress is the author of over twenty-one
books and numerous articles. His books have been translated to
both Spanish and Italian. Among his best known works are Social
Semiotics, Polity Press/Cornell University Press, 1988 (with
Robert Hodge), Reading Images: A Grammar of Visual Design,
Routledge, 1996 (with Theo van Leeuwen), and most recently Before
Writing: Rethinking Paths into Literacy, Routledge, 1996.
Professor Kress has concentrated his efforts on the question
of postmodern literacy. He is especially concerned with the way
children make meaning in the media environment of today. Current Interests The English curriculum; pedagogy; subjectivity; social semiotics; visual semiotics, semiotics of materiality/multimodality; representation and communication, ie "Literacy"; Media and Cultural Studies
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