Jordan Johnson is a proud first-generation college student and liberal arts graduate. She earned a B.A. in journalism and political science from Doane University and an M.A. in communication studies from Kansas State University.
Johnson is currently finishing her doctorate in communication studies with an emphasis in rhetoric and public culture at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her dissertation explores film memories of 1968-era state violence targeting popular radical dissent movements in Mexico and the United States and asks how film memories shape contemporary public understandings of the (im)possibility of social change.
Her research interests include rhetoric, public memory, hauntology, and critical cultural studies.
Before joining Hastings College in 2022, Jordan taught and coached as a graduate student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She also served for two years as the Assistant Director of Forensics at Casper College in Casper, Wyoming, after earning her M.A. and coaching at Kansas State. In 2020, she was awarded the Outstanding New Coach Award from the American Forensic Association’s National Speech Tournament.
In her free time, Johnson enjoys trashy reality television, attending concerts, and playing board games with her partner, Shawn, and their two incredibly spoiled pit bull rescues.
Select Publications and Conference Presentations
- Johnson, J.L. (2022, November). Displacing the Mexican Student Movement: Un extraño enemigo as Therapeutic Commemoration. Competitive paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association. New Orleans, LA, Critical and Cultural Studies Division.
- Johnson, J.L. (2021, November). Melancholic Memory: El grito as Cinematic Haunting. Competitive paper presented at the annual conference of the National Communication Association. Seattle, WA, Critical and Cultural Studies Division. Top Student Paper.
- Johnson, J.L., & Hoerl, K. (2020). Suppressing Black Power through Black Panther’s Neocolonial Allegory, Spec. issue on Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther. The Review of Communication, 20(3), 269-277.
