Rate My Professor Danielle Aubert

Danielle Aubert is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design in the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History at Wayne State University, where she joined as Assistant Professor in 2008 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017. She previously served as Visiting Teaching Fellow at Princeton University from 2013 to 2015 and as Adjunct Faculty at the College for Creative Studies from 2005 to 2008. Aubert earned her Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Yale University in 2005 and her Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction in English Literature from the University of Virginia in 1998. Her academic teaching includes courses such as Introduction to Graphic Design, Typography, History of Graphic Design, Graphic Design 2, Graphic Design 3, Senior Studio, and Senior Seminar at Wayne State University.

Aubert's research specializations center on graphic design, examining materials, methods of production, machines, and labor, with a focus on leftist politics and printing history in Detroit. She is the author of The Detroit Printing Co-op: The Politics of the Joy of Printing (Inventory Books, 2019), Marking the Dispossessed (Passenger Books, 2015), and 16 Months Worth of Drawings in Microsoft Excel (2006). She co-authored Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies: Lafayette Park, Detroit (Metropolis Books, 2012) with Lana Cavar and Natasha Chandani. Her articles include 'Anything Can Happen' in South Atlantic Quarterly (2020), 'In the 1970s, The Detroit Printing Co-op Showed the Revolutionary Potential of Design' in Eye on Design (2020), and 'Poletown vs. GM' in C Magazine (2019). Aubert has received the Kresge Literary Arts Award (2021), Knight Arts Challenge Award (2018), Princeton University Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts (2013–2015), Brno Biennial selection (2012), and multiple AIGA awards. She was elected President of AAUP-AFT Local 6075, the Wayne State University faculty and academic staff union, in 2021. Her invited lectures include presentations at University of Illinois–Chicago, Columbia University GSAPP, MoMA/PS1, and the Graham Foundation. Aubert's work has appeared in group exhibitions such as the 26th Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno (2014) and Palais de Tokyo (2012).