[2] He served as Professor of general and comparative literature, and critical studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz until 2022.

Godzich has published and translated several books, edited eight collections of essays, and authored over a hundred scholarly articles, lectures, and papers.

He sits on the editorial board of multiple American, European and Asian journals, both print and electronic.

His research grants have been primarily from US, Canadian, Swedish, Swiss and private agencies.

Godzich reinvigorates the semiological project proposed by Saussure but forsaken by his heirs: that of exploring the social functioning of language in its historical and rhetorical actualizations.