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Johanna Drucker is the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies Emerita 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. 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). Drucker is also known for her artist‘s books which were the subject of a travelling retrospective, Druckworks: 40 years of books and projects, in 2012-2014. Her work has been translated into Korean, Catalan, Chinese, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Danish and Portuguese. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society; and she has been awarded the Steven Heller Award for Cultural Criticism from the American Institute of Graphic Art (2021), the Alexandra Garrett Award for Service (2019), and awarded an Honorary PhD in Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2016).  She was elected to the American Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ of Arts and Sciences in  2014, and she serves on the Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ Council and is the Chair of the Humanities, Arts, and Culture Advisory Committee.