Gunther Kress

Gunther Kress is Professor of English in the School of Culture, Language and Communication at the Institute of Education, University of London.

He 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) and more recently Multimodal Discourse: The modes and media of contemporary communication, Edward Arnold, 2001 (also with Theo van Leeuwen).