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School of Environmental Studies

Jenne Schmidt

Jenne Schmidt

Assistant professor

Environmental Studies & Gender Studies

Contact:
Office: CLE B127
ORCID:
0000-0002-5640-8561
Credentials:
PhD (WSU, Cultural Studies and Social Thought), MA (SFSU, Women and Gender Studies)
Area(s) of expertise:
Queer theory, critical disability studies, transgender politics, environmental politics and thought, place-based and reading landscape methodologies, critical plant and animal studies

Office Hours

By appointment only, varies by term.

Interests

  • crip/queer/trans ecologies
  • access and inclusion in the outdoors

About Jenne Schmidt

Dr. Jenne Schmidt (they/them) joined UVic in 2026 as an assistant professor joint-appointed in the Department of Gender Studies and the School of Environmental Studies. They are an interdisciplinary scholar bringing together 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.

Publications

Please see Jenne's Google Scholar profile for up-to-date publications.