Please join us on Saturday, November 9, from 2:55-4:00 PM for our PAMLA Plenary Address at Crosby Ballroom A. Professor Johanna Drucker will address the complexity of book production—which can be understood as a process of mediation, a form of translation, or an instantiation— through a focus on her own artist’s books as well as those she’s produced in collaboration with Brad Freeman, Susan Bee, and Emily McVarish.
Johanna Drucker is a Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. Drucker is internationally known for her work in graphic design history, typography, experimental poetry, and digital humanities. Drucker’s artist’s books are widely represented in museum and library collections and were the subject of a travelling retrospective, Druckworks: 40 Years of Books and Projects. Recent titles include Diagrammatic Writing (Onomatopée, 2014), The General Theory of Social Relativity (The Elephants, 2018), Inventing the Alphabet (University of Chicago Press, 2022), Visualization and Interpretation (MIT Press, 2020), and Iliazd: Meta-Biography of a Modernist (Johns Hopkins University Press 2020).