--- title: Douglas Hofstadter | TIME description: Douglas Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of numerous books, including Gödel, Escher, Bach and I Am a Strange Loop and Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language, and he has translated books from French, Italian, Russian, and Swedish into English. canonical: https://time.com/author/douglas-hofstadter/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/douglas-hofstadter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Douglas Hofstadter ## Douglas Hofstadter Douglas Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of numerous books, including _Gödel, Escher, Bach_ and _I Am a Strange Loop_ and _Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language_, and he has translated books from French, Italian, Russian, and Swedish into English. ## Douglas Hofstadter *  Jun 30, 2026 ### [Why Learning a Language Still Matters](https://time.com/article/2026/06/30/why-learning-a-language-still-matters/) Learning another language is one of the deepest and most human things one can possibly do, writes Do... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: {"meta\_title":"","meta\_description":"","og\_title":"","og\_description":"","og\_imageConnection":{"edges":\[\],"\_\_typename":"SysAssetConnection"},"twitter\_card":null,"\_\_typename":"Seo"} ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/douglas-hofstadter/","name":"Douglas Hofstadter"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/douglas-hofstadter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/douglas-hofstadter/"},"name":"Douglas Hofstadter","jobTitle":"","description":"Douglas Hofstadter is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of numerous books, including Gödel, Escher, Bach and I Am a Strange Loop and Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language, and he has translated books from French, Italian, Russian, and Swedish into English.","url":"https://time.com/author/douglas-hofstadter/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```