Carmen Hern谩ndez Ojeda, PhD
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Dr. Carmen Hern谩ndez Ojeda is a scholar聽settled in Seville, Spain. She has taught at several U.S. universities and has five years of experience teaching in study abroad programs. As a researcher, Dr. Hern谩ndez uses performance autoethnography to decolonize academia and critically examine her experiences of oppression and resistance. She has published her work in Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, International Review of Qualitative Research, and Tabula Rasa, as well as in the anthologies, Cultura, Homosexualidad y Homofobia, Feminismos Lesbianos y Queer: Representaci贸n, Visibilidad y Pol铆ticas, and Pandemic Death Discourse: Denial, Disparity and the Promise of Communication. In 2020, one of her co-authored essays was awarded the Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award. Her current projects focus on promoting autoethnography as a (self)decolonizing tool in the Canary Islands from a feminist and intersectional perspective. Likewise, Dr. Hern谩ndez studies the possibilities of performance autoethnography as a pedagogical tool.
As an activist and organizer, Dr. Hern谩ndez spent more than a decade advocating for LGTBI+ civil rights in Spain. In 2008, while serving as the coordinator of lesbian issues and as a board member of the Spanish Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals (FELGTBI+) in Madrid, she led the launch of Lesbian Visibility Day (April 26) that is now celebrated around the world.
Courses Taught
Theory and Practice in International Education
Practitioner Inquiry
Selected Publications
Hern谩ndez-Ojeda, C. (2025). Avoiding end of life in the classroom during a pandemic: A professor鈥檚 firsthand experience. In M. Alvarez (Ed.), Pandemic death discourse: Denial, disparity and the promise of communication. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.
Hern谩ndez-Ojeda, C.G. (2021). My self-decolonizing story as a colonize(d)(r) Canary scholar/worm. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 10(4), 30-53.
P茅rez Flores, L., Fern谩ndez Hern谩ndez, P., Hern谩ndez Ojeda, C.G., & N煤帽ez Rodr铆guez, X. (2021). Cuerpo y territorio: Conversaciones desde el feminismo descolonial canario. Tabula Rasa, 38, 133-154.
Alexander, B. K., Stephenson, A., Alhayek, K., Israsena Twishime, P, Sutton, T., Hernandez-Ojeda, C., & Moreira, C. (2019). 鈥淚鈥檓 sorry my hair is blocking your smile鈥�: A performative assemblage and intercultural dialogue on the politics of hair and place. International Review of Qualitative Research, 12(4), 339-362. [This piece received the 2020 Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award]
Selected Presentations
P茅rez Flores, L., & Hern谩ndez Ojeda, C. (2024, May 30). La descolonizaci贸n autoetnogr谩fica como
propuesta pedag贸gica para la transformaci贸n social [Conference presentation]. XIII Congreso Internacional de Educaci贸n y Gerencia Avanzada (CIEG 2024), Villablino, Spain.
Hern谩ndez-Ojeda, C. G. (2021, July 27-30). Lo que la pandemia de la COVID-19 me ense帽贸 sobre las pr谩cticas feministas de (auto)cuidado en la investigaci贸n autoetnogr谩fica [Conference presentation]. 7潞 Congreso Internacional de Antropolog铆a AIBR (Antrop贸logos Iberoamericanos en Red), Vila-Real, Portugal.
Hern谩ndez-Ojeda, C. (2021, May 27-31). Avoiding End of Life in the Classroom During a Pandemic: A Professor鈥檚 Firsthand Experience [Conference presentation]. 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference (ICA).
Current Research Interests
Performance autoethnography and pedagogy
Canarian decolonial feminism
Canarian diaspora
Education
- PhD, Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- MA, Communication, University of Hartford
- BA, Journalism, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
