Jenne Schmidt

Joined UVic Gender Studies in 2026

Faculty Bio

Dr. Jenne Schmidt (they/them) is an assistant professor joint-appointed in the Department of Gender Studies and the School of Environmental Studies. They hold a master’s degree in Women and Gender Studies from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. from Washington State University. Situated within critical disability theory, trans and queer politics, and environmental studies, their current research interrogates the ways that Western environmental futures are positioned as incommensurable with crip, trans, and queer existence/futurity, in an effort to locate moments and places of coalitional possibility where other futures are imaginable.

Research Interests

crip/queer/trans ecologies

access and inclusion in the outdoors

Courses Designed and Taught

GNDR 3xx - Feminist and Queer Approaches to STS 

GNDR 2xx - Monstrous Bodies 

GNDR 336 - Trans Theory  

Selected Publications

Schneider, L., & Schmidt, J. (2026). (Re)Producing Salmon: Purity Politics and Salmon Conservation in the Pacific Northwest. Society & Natural Resources, 39(1), 157–169. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2025.2524743

Schmidt, J. (2024). Toward Crip Ecologies: Cultivating Relational Accountability with the More‐than‐Human. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 11(4), 671–693. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-11421166

Schmidt, J. (2023). From Freak Shows to Freaknature: A Crip Critique of the Un/Natural. Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 17(4), 453–469. https://doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2023.34

Schmidt, J. (2022). Cripping environmental education: Rethinking disability, nature, and interdependent futures. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2022.26

Google Scholar link: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=en&user=LID302QAAAAJ

Affiliations

American Studies Association

National Women Studies Association