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 across the humanities, and his work is animated by the ways marginalized communities encounter and navigate complex systems of biomedical and technological injustices within their lives. 

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.