MEDIA STUDIES :: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA :: PO Box 400866 :: 142 Cabell :: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22904-4866

Johanna Drucker is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and was the first director of the Media Studies program which she created at the University of Virginia on arrival in 1999. She has a PhD in Ecriture (University of California, Berkeley, 1986) and has been on the faculty of Yale University, Columbia University, the University of Texas at Dallas, State University of New York at Purchase, and Harvard University where she taught art history, theory, and practice. Her publications have been in the field of 20th-century art history, the history of writing and the alphabet, artists' books, experimental typography, and visual and concrete poetry.

Her most recent publication is Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity (University of Chicago Press, 2005). Her other scholarly titles include: Theorizing Modernism (Columbia University Press, 1994), The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art (University of Chicago Press, 1994), The Alphabetic Labyrinth (Thames and Hudson, 1995) and The Century of Artists' Books (Granary Books, 1996).

She is also internationally known for her work as a book artist and writer and has been publishing experimental editions since 1972; her most recent titles include Figuring the Word (Druckwerk 1998), Narratology (Druckwerk, 1994), and Nova Reperta (in collaboration with Brad Freeman, JABbooks, 1999), Night Crawlers on the Web (2000), A Girl's Life (Granary, 2001), Quantum (2002), Damaged Spring (2003), and From Now (Cuneiform Press, 2005).

She is currently working on a large-scale digital project, Artists' Books Online, and is helping in the planning and development of the MA in Digital Humanities, to be launched at the University of Viriginia in Fall 2007. For more information about the curriculum or program contact jrd8e@virginia.edu.