Rate My Professor Aleksandra Hernandez

Key publications include “Pragmatist Feminist Utopias: Gilman, Mead, and the Problem of Choice” (Hypatia, 2022), “Disgust, Antebellum Vegetarianism, and the Human Animal in Thoreau’s ‘Higher Laws’” (Arizona Quarterly, 2022), “Jack London’s Poetic Animality and the Problem of Domestication” (Journal of Modern Literature, 2021), “Epistemic Oppression and Affective Exclusion: A Pragmatist Approach” (Passion, 2023), “Rethinking Wilderness: Wendell Berry, Philip K. Dick, and the Absence of the Wild” (ISLE, 2023), and “Imagination, Ethics, and Epistemic Inquiry: Why Teaching Literature and Film in the Philosophy Classroom Matters” (Journal of Philosophy in Schools, 2025). Forthcoming works include “John Dewey, Humanism, and the Value of Science” in Science and Humanism (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and “‘Thoughts the Body Thought’: Thoreau, Thinking, and Metaphor,” co-authored with Laura Dassow Walls for The Oxford Handbook of Henry David Thoreau (2026). She is developing a book project titled Animal Values: A Pragmatist Ethic for Our Relationship with Animals. Hernandez has received the Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship (University of Miami, AY 2023-2024), Quarry Farm Fellowship (Center for Mark Twain Studies, 2021), Engaged Faculty Fellowship (University of Miami, 2020-2021), and Bruns Graduate Essay Prize (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, 2013). She has presented at conferences including the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (2024), Canadian Philosophical Association (2024), and Women in Pragmatism Conference (2023).