Wilfredo Flores, PhD 

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Dr. Flores is an assistant professor of writing, rhetoric, and digital studies in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He holds a PhD in Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures (with a focus on Indigenous Studies) from Michigan State University. 

Wilfredo Flores, PhD, is an awards-winning rhetorical scholar of health and medicine. He is a community-engaged researcher and educator trained in rhetorical studies and criticism, and he draws from theories and methodologies from across the humanities. His work is animated by the ways marginalized communities encounter and navigate complex systems of biomedical and technological injustices within their lives, and he uses his research findings to equip community with the tools to redresss colonial damage. 

He is a co-founder of and former organizer with Queering Medicine, a Lansing, MI-based grassroots queer health collective. He also serves as a co-producer for the Storying Sex podcast and oral history project and is part of the editorial collective for the Q+Public book series through Rutgers University Press. 

He lives in Charlotte, NC, writes in the city's many coffee shops, takes care of  a senior cat, and owns too many books.