Dani Johannesen

Danielle Johannesen Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Role:
Faculty - On-Campus
Faculty - Online

Currently Teaching

COMP 1013-001: Composition II
WRIT 2335-E90: Intro to Creative Writing
WRIT 3002-E90: Literary Theory & Criticism
WRIT 3303-001: Writing in Your Profession
WRIT 3303-E90: Writing in Your Profession
WRIT 3994-E90: Undergrad Research in English

Awards, Distinctions, and Honors

Research Interests

  • Composition & Rhetoric
  • American Literature
  • Popular Culture
  • Creative Writing

Selected Publications

  • With Mark E. Huglen. Iconic Sports Venues: Persuasion in Public Spaces. New York: Peter Lang, January 2017. Print.
  • “A Scientific Method to Muppet Madness: The Enduring Significance of Innovation at Muppet Labs.” The Scientist in Popular Culture: Playing God and Working Wonders.  Ed. Rebecca Janicker.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. 113-131. Print.
  • “A Mass Grave and a Massacre: Remembrances of Death at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.” Dark Tourism and Pilgrimage.  Ed. Daniel Olsen and Maximiliano Korstanje.  Boston, MA: CABI, 2020.  197-204. Print.  
  • “Playing at Home: The Huron Arena as Domestic Space.”  In Johannesen and Huglen, eds. Iconic Sports Venues: Persuasion in Public Spaces.  New York: Peter Lang, 2017. 125-140. Print.
  • “Mick Foley’s Mankind and the Performance of Mental Illness in Professional Wrestling.” Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine 8.2 (2022): Article 4. https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/vol8/iss2/4. Peer-reviewed scholarly article.
  • “Depictions of American Indians in George Armstrong Custer’s My Life on the Plains.” Humanities 8.1 (2019): 56, https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010056.  Web and Print.  Peer-reviewed scholarly article. “No Place Like Home: Magical Ruralism as Cultural Discourse.”  Penumbra: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical and Creative Inquiry 5 (Summer 2018): 126-140.  Print.  Peer-reviewed scholarly article.
  • “What to Make of It? Detritus, Wreckage, and Imaginative Re-Purposing in Moby-Dick.” The Nautilus: A Maritime Journal of Literature, History, and Culture 7 (2016): 7-26. Print. Peer-reviewed scholarly article.  
  • "Intro to Creative Writing." Nonfiction Essay. The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction. Ed. Dinty W. Moore and Zoë Bossiere.  Brookline Brookline, MA: Rose Metal Press, 2020. p. 64-66.
  • “Ronnie.” Short fiction. Oakwood (2018): 85-86. Print.
  • “Centennial.” Fiction. South Dakota Review 50.1 (2013): 179-87. Print.

Local Community Memberships/Involvement

  • Crookston Community Theatre, 2023 Ox Cart Days Vice Chair

Educational Background

  • Ph.D. in English from the University of South Dakota, 2012

 

In the News

  • 2+2 Vietnamese Student Enjoying New Experiences at U of M Crookston
    In August 2023, Thao Nguyen traveled from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to the University of Minnesota Crookston as part of the 2+2 Joint Program with University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU-HCM, and she’ll be spending her first winter on campus. Nguyen explained how the weather in Ho Chi… Read more
  • UMN Crookston professor Dani Johannesen announced as 2022-2023 recipient of Horace T. Morse award
    “It means the world to me to represent the Crookston campus as a Morse Award winner and member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers,” said Johannesen. “I am so proud to serve our campus and our inspirational students.” Dani Johannesen, Ph.D.  Dani JohannesenUniversity of Minnesota… Read more
  • Faculty Feature: Danielle “Dani” Johannesen, Ph.D.
    Dani Johannesen, Ph.D. holding a JFK coffee mugDanielle “Dani” Johannesen, Ph.D., has been working as an associate professor at the University of Minnesota Crookston for 11 years, beginning in the fall of 2012. She is originally from Huron, S.D., where her parents and brother still… Read more
  • Students Host Podcast “Calling an Audible”
    Greg Johnson, a junior from Lonsdale, Minn., and Zach Greenberg, a senior from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, took an interest in creating the podcast following a suggestion by Assistant Professor Dani Johannesen. As the idea developed they consulted James Pogatshnik in Media Services on campus… Read more