His work focuses on the points of connection (and spaces of contention among) digital media and rhetorical studies, with a particular tint toward multimedia production, aesthetics, media studies, game/play theories, and rhetorical invention. While a graduate student at Clemson University, Hodgson attempted two dissertations to demonstrate the parallels, connections, and distinctions between a print dissertation and a digital one (using the Sophie platform). As a scholar, Hodgson’s work has been published in the journals Enculturation, Kairos, Pre/Text, Composition Studies, and Education Quarterly. Further, he is the founding editor of The Journal for Undergraduate Multimedia Projects (TheJUMP), a journal dedicated to (1) showcasing undergraduate multimedia scholarship and (2) serving as pedagogical resource for instructors of multimedia composition.