The Brooklyn Rail

Johanna Drucker is Distinguished Professor and Breslauer Professor Emerita, Department of Information Studies, UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities. Recent work includes Inventing the Alphabet (University of Chicago Press, 2022) and Affluvia: The toxic off-gassing of affluent culture (The Bridge, 2025). Her artist’s books are represented in museum and library special collections throughout North America and elsewhere and were the subject of a travelling retrospective, Druckworks: 40 years of books and projects, in 2012–14. She lives in Los Angeles.