Sonja Drimmer is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art & Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A scholar of medieval European art with expertise in illuminated manuscripts and early print, Drimmer's longstanding interests in premodern notions of reproduction, replication, and media theory have led her to move beyond the medieval world and focus on the relationship between modern technology--from photography to artificial intelligence--and the history of art. Her first book, The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403–1476 (UPenn, 2018) is the first study devoted to the origins of the English literary canon as an illustrated corpus, and it received High Commendation for Exemplary Scholarship from the Historians of British Art. She is currently completing a monograph titled Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England. Her writing on AI has appeared in both public and academic venues, including The International Journal for Digital Art History, The Conversation, Art in America, and Art News.
