Brooke Hull

Brooke Hull joined the Stuckeman School's Department of Graphic Design faculty as an assistant professor on Aug. 1, 2024.

Hull's research focuses on fatness and marginalized identity with the goal of expanding design education — and education, in general — for every human body. In their design work, they experiment with visually communicating the topics they are researching to help their work be accessible to a wider, public audience as a form of activism and advocacy.

Hull comes to Penn State from Gainesville, Florida, where they earned a master of fine arts in design and visual communication along with a graduate certificate in women and gender studies from the University of Florida. While there, Hull most recently served as teaching assistant and co-creator of a design technologies course for design majors. They also held positions as an instructor of record, social media designer, and graduate teaching assistant for a variety of design courses while pursuing their graduate degree.

Hull also is an invited guest teacher of activism with the University of Copenhagen, DIS study abroad program, focusing on fat and queer activism.

Hull has presented and displayed their work at numerous national and international design and interdisciplinary conferences as well as juried exhibitions. They also have co-written papers that are published in multiple design conference proceedings and an upcoming peer-reviewed journal.

As a designer, Hull has worked on several projects for UF’s College of the Arts, mostly recently being a publication for the Harn Museum of Art. Prior to that, they were the lead graphic design intern with the Office of Design and Communication and for The Art Gallery at the University of West Florida, where they graduated with a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design and a minor in marketing and interdisciplinary honor’s studies in 2021.

• Masters of Fine Arts in Design and Visual Communication, University of Florida
• Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies, University of Florida
• Bachelors of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, University of West Florida,

Co-author with Dori Griffin, "Locating Joy Online (by Discussing Complex, Intersectional Design-education Affordances)," Design Research Society 2024.

“Erasure,” visual short essay in "Thinking Through Graphic Design History: Challenging the Canon” by Aggie Toppins, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

Co-author with Dori Griffin, Samira Shiridevich, and David Clulow, “How Does Design Work in Everyday Life?” AIGA Design Educators Community Shift[ed] publication, 2022.