Lisa Diercks

Professor Emeritus, School of Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies

Emeritus

At Emerson since 1996

Campus

Boston

Department

Writing, Literature and Publishing

Education

  • B.A., Tufts University
    M.S., Boston University

Lisa Diercks teaches book design, magazine design, and design software courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She also acts as design advisor for the department’s student publications.

Diercks is a publishing industry veteran and continues to be active in her field, working primarily in book design. She began her career at Houghton Mifflin/Trade and later established her own design studio. Her publishing clients have included AIGA Boston; The Atlantic Monthly; Beacon Press; Boston Review; Carnegie Museum of Art; Countryman Press; Da Capo; Hachette Book Group; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Little, Brown; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Ploughshares; Seal Press; Ten Speed Press; and W.W. Norton.