Dr. Jenée Wilde has a PhD in English with a Folklore emphasis, a graduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies, an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing, and a BA in English and Journalism. Her research areas include science fiction, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, cultural studies, cinema studies, folklore, comics studies, and creative nonfiction writing. Her doctoral dissertation, “Speculative Fictions, Bisexual Lives: Changing Frameworks of Sexual Desire,” investigates bisexuality in science fiction texts and fan communities to argue for a radical shift in how we conceive of sexual knowledge. As a Senior Instructor of English, Dr. Wilde teaches courses in science fiction film, literature, and comics as well as writing and advanced composition. As a journalist, Dr. Wilde wrote news and feature stories for newspapers and magazines for more than a decade. In addition to teaching, she currently works for the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) writing stories and producing center publications as well as managing their communications team.
“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.
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