Johanna Drucker

Johanna Drucker is Distinguished Professor and Breslauer 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, fine art, and digital humanities. Some of her recent books include: General Theory of Social Relativity (The Elephants), Downdrift: An Eco-fiction (Three Rooms Press), Diagrammatic Writing (Onomatopée), Fabulas Feminae (Litmus Press), What Is? (Cuneiform Press), Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (Harvard University Press), Digital_Humanities, with Anne Burdick, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp, (MIT Press). Drucker is also known for her artist‘s books which were the subject of a traveling retrospective, “Druckworks: 40 years of books and projects,” in 2012-2014. In 2014 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.