Jennie Young

Jennie Young, PhD, is the creator of Burned Haystack Dating Method and a professor of writing and rhetoric at University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. She publishes work in humor, feminism, applied rhetoric, dating dynamics, and educaton. Her writing can be seen in McSweeney’s, Ms. Magazine, The Independent, Huffpost, Inside Higher Ed, and elsewhere. Also the author of a textbook that uses critical discourse and primary metaphor analysis to critique contemporary high school culture, she focuses almost exclusively on public scholarship, packaging and articulating it in a way that’s accessible and engaging for a general audience and sharing it freely on social media. She lives in Wisconsin.