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 education. Her writing can be seen in McSweeney’s, Ms. Magazine, The Independent, Huffpost, Inside Higher Ed, and elsewhere. She previously wrote a textbook that uses critical discourse and primary metaphor analysis to critique contemporary high school culture and is now turning those same lenses on the dating sphere. Over the past few years she has focused 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 Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
