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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 in Education, 2020)
Area(s) of expertise:
Environmental Studies, critical disability theory, queer politics

Office Hours

By appointment only.

About Jenne Schmidt

Dr. Jenne Schmidt focuses on critical disability theory, queer politics, and environmental studies. Their current research is centered on interrogating the ways that environmental futures are positioned as incommensurable with crip and queer existence/futurity. They refuse the notion that in order to secure a sustainable ecological future for humans, we must eradicate (via a logic of environmental management that draws on eugenics-adjacent frameworks) corporeal differences including disability and queerness. Dr. Schmidt’s research engages this tension to trouble the foundations of environmentalism and disability, in hopes of locating the moments and places of coalitional possibility where both eco-futures and “desiring disability” (Kafer, 2013) are present.

Publications

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