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Jenée Wilde

Senior Instructor of English
CSWS Dissemination Specialist
English
Phone: 541-346-8033
Office: 331 PLC, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Spring 2025 – Tues & Thurs, 3:30-5 pm, or by appt.
Research Interests: gender and sexuality studies, queer studies, science fiction, folklore, popular culture, creative nonfiction writing

Publications

“Gay, Queer or Dimensional? Modes of Reading Bisexuality on Torchwood,” in Literature, Popular Culture, and Bisexuality, edited by Ian Kinane. Routledge (forthcoming). [peer reviewed]

Experimental Critical Writing: A Hybrid Approach to Advanced Composition. Broadview Press (forthcoming).

“How Estrangement and the Transgender Look Queers Spectatorship in Science Fiction Media,” in The Handbook of Transgender Science Fiction, edited by Sabine Sharp and Doug Vakoch. Routledge (forthcoming). [peer reviewed]

Co-editor, Science and Culture: Readings for Writers, UO Libraries, 2023. [Oregon Open Education Resource]

“Science Fiction Paradox and the Transgender Look: How Time Travel Queers Spectatorship in Predestination.” Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, vol. 60, 2021 [peer reviewed]

Co-editor, The Culture of Science: A Casebook for Writers, 2nd edition, UO Composition Program, 2019 [Oregon Open Education Resource]

“Speculative Fictions, Bisexual Lives: Changing Frameworks of Sexual Desire.” Diss. University of Oregon, 2015.

“Gay, Queer or Dimensional? Modes of Reading Bisexuality on Torchwood,” Journal of Bisexuality, vol. 15, no. 3, 2015, pp. 414-434 [peer reviewed]

“Dimensional Sexuality: Exploring New Frameworks for Bisexual Desires,” Sexual and Relationship Therapy, vol. 29, no. 3, August 2014, pp. 320-38 [peer reviewed]

“Queer Matters in The Dark Night Returns, Or Why We Insist on a Sexual Identity for Batman,” in Riddle Me This Batman! Essays from the Universe of the Dark Knight, edited by Kevin K. Durand and Mary K. Leigh, McFarland, 2011, pp. 104-123.
 

Teaching

Upper-division Courses:

  • WR 423 Advanced Composition: Experimental Critical Writing

  • ENG 407 St. Louis Seminar: Experimental Critical Writing

  • ENG 395 20th C. Literature: Science Fiction and Gender

  • ENG 381 Film, Media, and Culture: “Otherness” in Speculative Film, TV, Comics

  • ENG 380 Film, Media, and History: The New Hollywood Blockbuste

  • WGS 361 Gender in Film and TV

Lower-division Courses:    

  • ENG 199/142 Introduction to Science Fiction

  • ENG 104 Introduction to Literature: Fiction

  •  WR 123 College Composition III

  • WR 122z College Composition II

  • WR 121z College Composition I