Full Name
Johanna Drucker
Job Title
Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information Studies
Company
UCLA
Speaker Bio
Johanna Drucker is the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, aesthetics, and digital humanities. Her scholarly reputation was established with The Century of Artists’ Books (Granary, 1995) The Alphabetic Labyrinth (Thames and Hudson, 1995), and The Visible Word (University of Chicago Press, 1994). Her creative work was the subject of a retrospective, Druckworks: 40 years of books and projects, initiated by Columbia College in Chicago in 2012. Her artist’s books are represented in special collections in museums and libraries in North American and Europe. Her 1988 work, Bookscape, was featured in the “Artists and their Books” exhibit at the Getty Research Institute in summer 2018. In 2014, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Recent work includes Diagrammatic Writing (Onomatopée, 2014), Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (Harvard University Press, 2014), The General Theory of Social Relativity, (The Elephants, 2018), and Downdrift: An Eco-fiction (Three Rooms Pres, 2018). In 2019 she was in residence as the inaugural Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Beinecke Library, Yale University, and has also been the recipient of Mellon, Fulbright, and Getty Fellowships. Recent publications include: Visualizing Interpretation (MIT, 2020), Iliazd: Metabiography of a Modernist (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021), and The Digital Humanities Coursebook (Routledge, 2021). Her work has been translated into Korean, Italian, Catalan, Chinese, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Danish and Portuguese.
Johanna Drucker