Johanna Drucker is Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita, 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 as well as for her artist’s books and experimental typography. Her most recent book, Inventing the Alphabet, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2022. Other new titles include Visualization and Interpretation (MIT Press, 2020), and Iliazd: Meta-Biography of a Modernist (Johns Hopkins University Press 2020), with Introduction to Digital Humanities (Routledge Spring, 2021), and The JAB Anthology, with Brad Freeman (University of Iowa Press, 2023). Drucker’ artist‘s books were the subject of a travelling retrospective, Druckworks: 40 years of books and projects, in 2012-2014. Honors and Awards: 2023 elected to the American Philosophical Society; 2021 received the Steven Heller Award for Cultural Criticism from the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Art); 2019 given the Alexandra Garrett Award for Service, Beyond Baroque Literary Center, Los Angeles, CA; 2019 invited to be the Inaugural Distinguished Senior Beinecke Fellow in the Humanities; 2016 awarded an Honorary PhD in Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; 2015 received the Walter Ong Award for Scholarship from the Media Ecology Association; 2014 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; in recognized with the 2014 Oscar Lewis Award, The Book Club of California (for work in book arts); and in 2010 APHA (American Printing History Association) bestowed the Individual Achievement Award for contributions to the field. A collection of her essays, What Is? (Cuneiform Press) was published in 2013 and Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (Harvard University Press) appeared in 2014. Digital_Humanities, with Anne Burdick, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, and Jeffrey Schnapp, (MIT Press) was published in 2012. Other work includes Diagrammatic Writing (Onomatopée, 2014), Fabulas Feminae (Litmus Press, 2015), The General Theory of Social Relativity, (The Elephants, 2018), Downdrift: An Eco-fiction (Three Rooms Press, 2018), and Off-World Fairy Tales, with Susan Bee (Litmus Press, 2020). Resume (download PDF)