Jenée Wilde
Statement
As a faculty member, I am dedicated to fostering equity and inclusion for our diverse students, faculty, and staff at the University of Oregon. As a queer-identified person with a disability, I recognize the importance of being a positive role model and providing accommodations and personalized support for disadvantaged students to succeed. Like many in the UO community, I face daily personal and professional challenges negotiating a wide variety of social and workplace environments on campus, and I have used these experiences to to become a better mentor to and advocate for my students. By being open with my non-binary queer identity and challenges with disability and access, I hope that my students feel more comfortable coming to me about their own struggles, so I can provide better support and guidance to ensure their success in my classes as well as in their academic studies more broadly. I am deeply committed to accessible and inclusive course design and classrooms for our students and to DEI advocacy for our campus community.
Publications
Experimental Critical Writing: A Hybrid Approach to Advanced Composition. Broadview Press (forthcoming 2026).
“The Transgender Look in Science Fiction Film and Television,” 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]
“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
“Speculative Fictions, Bisexual Lives: Changing Frameworks of Sexual Desire.” Diss. University of Oregon, 2015.
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 380 Film, Media, and History: The New Hollywood Blockbuster
ENG 381 Film, Media, and Culture: “Otherness” in Speculative Film, TV, Comics
WGS 361 Gender in Film and TV
Lower-division Courses:
ENG 142 Introduction to Science Fiction
ENG 104 Introduction to Literature: Fiction
WR 123 College Composition III: Written Reasoning in the Context of Research
WR 122 College Composition II: Written Reasoning as a Process of Argument
WR 121 College Composition I: Written Reasoning as Discovery and Inquiry