Wilfredo Flores, PhD

Assistant Professor of Digital Cultural Rhetorics
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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My name is Wilfredo Flores, but you can also call me Wil if that’s too hard (just please don’t call me Alfredo or some other name 🙂). My last name means "flowers" in Spanish, and I worked as a florist for a while before making my way into higher education.

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

Across my research, teaching, and service, I foreground ethical community engagement practices and sustainable change by assembling theory and practice to build livable futures for those who need it the most.

To see what I've been up to lately, check out this page; for a longer bio about how I came to academia and my current location, check out this Intellectual Autobiography.