Wilfredo Flores

Education

• PhD, Writing and Rhetoric, Michigan State University, 2022
• MA: Technical Communication (Rhetoric), Texas Tech University, 2017
• BA: English, Professional Writing, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2014

Research Interests

• Rhetorical and Critical Theory
• Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
• Community Writing
• User-Centered Design Methods

Brief Bio

Wilfredo Flores, PhD, is a rhetorical scholar of health, medicine, & digital infrastructure. His work focuses on sexual health communication and digital studies, but broadly, his projects constellate across rhetorical studies of health and medicine, science and technology studies, and internet studies.

Dr. Flores uses rhetorical theory to understand the ways human communication shapes (non)human livability, focusing on biomedical and infrastructural development within colonial contexts. His work has been featured in The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition, The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric, Literacy in Composition Studies, and is forthcoming in other spaces.

As an educator, his courses cover the ways media ecologies operate (namely, how dis- and misinformation circulate and how conspiracy theories form and flourish), contemporary critical and rhetorical theory, and user experience methodologies and user-centered design approaches in public contexts. Most of his classes focus on rhetorical and digital methodologies for working with, in, and for communities.

To learn more about his current projects and to see materials from his classes, see his personal website at to wilfredoflores.com.

Selected Publications & Presentations

Flores, Wilfredo. “Working in the Community-University Interface: Insurgent Methods for Extraordinary Times.” constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space, vol. 7, 2024. https://constell8cr.com/articles/working-in-the-community-university-interface-insurgent-methods-for-extraordinary-times

Sánchez, Fernando, Green, McKinley, and Wilfredo Flores. “Introduction to Queer and Trans Health Justice: A Special Issue of RHM.” Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, vol. 7, no. 1, 2024.

Flores, Wilfredo. “Researching on the Intersectional Internet: Slow Coding as Humanistic Recovery.” Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition, vol. 25, no. 3, (CTRL-)Shifting Practices: Advancing Internet Research Ethics through Feminist Rhetorics (Special Issue), 2023. https://cfshrc.org/article/researching-on-the-intersectional-internet-slow-coding-as-humanistic-recovery