Gunther Kress

Gunther Rolf Kress MBE (born 26 November 1940) is Professor of Semiotics and Education in the Department of Learning, Curriculum & Communication at the Institute of Education of the University of London.

Kress was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to scholarship.

Works

• Kress, Gunther R. (1997). Before Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-13804-3.
• Kress, Gunther R. (2003). Literacy in the New Media Age. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-25356-X.
• Kress, Gunther R. ; Van Leeuwen, Theo (2006). Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-31915-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

See also

• Visual literacy

External links

• Gunther Kress page at the Institute of Education
• Reading Images: Multimodality, Representation and New Media