Sonja Drimmer is an associate professor of art and architecture history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A scholar of medieval European art with expertise in illuminated manuscripts. Her publications include The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403–1476, which was recognized for exemplary scholarship by the Historians of British Art, and articles in The International Journal for Digital Art History, The Conversation, Art in America, and Art News. Her research has received support from the National Humanities Center, the Healey Endowment, the British Academy, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Warburg Institute, among others. She is a founding member of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. In 2019 she won the Medieval Academy of America’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and an Outstanding Teaching Award from UMass Amherst. She is currently working on a book entitled “Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England.”
