Danille Christensen

Dr. Christensen (she/her) is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion & Culture at Virginia Tech, where she is faculty in the Appalachian Studies and Food Studies programs, as well as the Material Culture & Public Humanities graduate program. Using genre, rhetoric, and performance as analytical lenses, she examines the politics of knowledge production about/among marginalized groups in the U.S., especially with regard to material carework. Her writing on ritualized sport, scrapbooks, gardening, indigenous foodscapes, and food preservation can be found in sources that include Journal of American Folklore, Journal of Folklore Research, Southern Cultures, and several edited volumes. Her forthcoming book explores the ways home canning has been positioned as a response to threat in the United States, situating the practice amidst shifting ideological and material contexts over the last two centuries. She teaches courses in American studies, Appalachian studies, folklore and folklife, food studies, material culture, and the ethnography of communication.