Kay Amert
Professor, Director, Typography Laboratory
B.G.S., 1972, The University of Iowa
E342 Adler Journalism & Mass Comm. Bldg. (AJB)
319-335-3427 or 5-5815
kay-amert@uiowa.edu
The foci of Kay Amert's teaching and research are typography, book and publication design, visual communication, and the history of the book.
Amert joined the University faculty in 1972. Trained as a typographic designer, her creative work revolves around the arts and includes design for books, journals, posters, brochures, and other media. Trained as well in historic production technologies, Amert's expertise includes the hand composition of types, hand printing, and other techniques used in print or book production. In part with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, she has published a number of books under the Seamark Press imprint.
Amert's recent work emphasizes type and book history, with a concentration on the French printing of the sixteenth century. Her archival research focuses on the work of Simon de Colines, Geofroy Tory, Robert Estienne, and others. Amert is the author of articles and reviews in such journals as Book History, Bookways, Fine Print, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Printing History, and Renaissance Quarterly.