Wilfredo Flores, PhD

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

wflores1@charlotte.edu+
curriculum vitae+

Dr. Wilfredo Flores (he/him) is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric & Digital Studies (WRDS) 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.

Dr. Flores is a rhetorical scholar of health, medicine, and digital infrastructure. His projects constellate across rhetorical studies of health and medicine, science and technology studies, and Black and Indigenous studies, focusing on biomedical, technoscientific, and digital infrastructure development within colonial contexts. Dr. Flores’s courses cover the ways dis/misinformation and conspiracy theories circulate, contemporary critical and rhetorical theory, and social media-based communication. His classes also focus on teaching students digital methodologies for ethically gathering and analyzing social media data, incorporating user-centered design approaches to train students as iterative and public-oriented thinkers and makers. 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.