About Jennie Young
Jennie Young, PhD, is the creator of Burned Haystack Dating Method and a writer and professor 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, Education Week, Inside Higher Ed, and elsewhere.
Jennie is trained in classical and applied rhetoric; previously, she wrote a textbook on high school culture using applied rhetoric, critical discourse analysis, and primary metaphor analysis methodologies; she is now applying these same methodologies to the dating sphere, and over the past two years has focused almost exclusively on public scholarship, bringing her academic expertise to a pressing issue in the public sphere, packaging and articulating it in a way that’s accessible and engaging for a general audience, and sharing it freely on social media.
Jennie has a Ph. D. in rhetoric and discourse studies from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and a certificate in satire writing from The Second City Chicago.
