About
Sonja Drimmer is a historian of art with expertise in manuscripts and early print. Alongside a focus on medieval art and book history, she researches and has published widely on the politics and societal impacts of the technological regimes that impinge on historical research, from photography to artificial intelligence. She is the author of The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403–1476 (UPenn Press, 2018), which received High Commendation for Exemplary Scholarship from the Historians of British Art; her book Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2027. She has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Public Books, The Conversation, Art in America, and more.
Her research has been supported by the National Humanities Center, the British Academy, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Warburg Institute, and others, and she is a founding member of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. In 2019 she was recognized with the Medieval Academy of America’s CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Education
B.A. Brown University (2003)
M.A. University of York (2004)
Ph.D. Columbia University (2011)
Courses
- COMP 381/STS 381 (F) SEM Extracting the Past: Democratic Futures and a World without AI
- COMP 383/STS 383 (S) SEM The Political Economies of Print