Johanna Drucker is the inaugural Bernard and Martin Breslauer Professor of Bibliography in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She has published extensively on the history of written forms, typography, design, and visual poetics. In addition to her scholarly work, Drucker is internationally known as a book artist and experimental, visual poet. Recent titles include: Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity (Chicago, 2005); Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide, with Emily McVarish (Pearson, 2008), and Testament of Women (Druckwerk, 2006). For the academic year 2008-09 she was the Digital Humanities Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center working on a project called “Diagramming Interpretation.” Her book, SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing was published by the University of Chicago Press in early 2009. She is currently working in collaboration with colleagues at University of London, King’s College, and UCLA to create an online Museum of Writing based at the Senate House Library.
Courses Taught
- Artists’ Books: Collection Development and Assessment : 2010 – 2011