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Dr. Flores is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric & Digital 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.
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS WILFREDO?
He is on research leave for Spring / Summer 2026. He will be presenting at the 22nd Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America in Portland, OR, in May 2026 and at the Computers and Writing Conference 2026 in Charlotte, NC, in June 2026.
WHO OR WHAT IS WILFREDO?
Wilfredo Flores, PhD, is an awards-winning rhetorical scholar of health and medicine. His projects constellate across the rhetorics of health and medicine, science and technology studies, and Black and Indigenous studies, and he focuses on biomedical, technoscientific, and infrastructural development within colonial contexts.
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.
Across his research, teaching, and service, Dr. Flores foregrounds ethical community engagement practices and sustainable change by assembling theory and practice to build livable futures for those who need it the most.
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