Alex Hodges

Dr. Alex R. Hodges is the Director of the Monroe C. Gutman Library at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he is HGSE Librarian and Lecturer on Education. Under the leadership of HGSE's Dean, Academic Dean, and Faculty Chair of Learning and Assessment, Dr. Hodges serves as a member of the HGSE-wide Leadership Collaborative group. He also serves as a member of the Harvard Library Leadership Team, led by the Vice President for Harvard Library and University Librarian. His other HGSE roles include --

• Educational Chair, Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians (LIAL), which annually since 1999 is part of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education professional education programming;
• Faculty Chair, Graduate Certificates in Education (a current pathway in Quantitative Research Methods is underway and chaired by HGSE's Dr. Melanie Rucinski; other certificate pathways are being considered);
• Faculty Advisory Board Chair, Harvard Educational Review, HGSE's doctoral student-run journal published by the Monroe C. Gutman Library with support from the Harvard Education Press;
• Chair, Jeanne S. Chall Endowment Advisory Board, which stewards funding and planning for an annual lecture, a visiting scholar, and doctoral student research awards.

Alex's scholarship has employed qualitative methods and has explored the intersections of information literacy instruction with composition studies, service learning, critical pedagogy, online learning, virtual schooling, and new media interactivity. He has investigated librarians’ perceptions of what they teach and the influence that their instruction has had on students’ digital scholarship production. His ongoing research strand seeks to understand academic librarians' stories of leadership, their perceived agency, and how their morals, ethics, and values function in their educational communities of practice.

From 2011-2017, Alex was tenured faculty as Associate Librarian at the American University (AU) Library and as Affliate Associate Professor at AU's Baker School of Education in Washington, DC. His library positions included Associate Director, Instruction & Research Services; Coordinator, Curriculum Materials Center; and Education Librarian. Since 2008, as faculty of record, he has taught credit-bearing undergraduate and graduate courses in educational research and writing, technology integration, multi-modal literacies, critical literacy, children's & young adult literature. He has supervised numerous independent studies and research projects.

Prior to 2004, Alex worked within library systems at the National Gallery of Art (U.S.), the University of Maryland College Park, and the University of Florida. He holds a Doctor of Education degree in curriculum and instruction concentrated on educational technology, a Master of Library Science degree, a graduate certificate in TESOL and applied linguistics, and a Bachelor of Arts in English.