About Us

Dr. McKinley Green (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, where he studies queer rhetorics, technical communication, and sexual health risk communication around HIV/AIDS. His current research project investigates how young people living with HIV communicate about infectious disease risk. McKinley works from a premise that people living with HIV have developed extensive rhetorical expertise to communicate about health risk, and that this situated expertise offers a model for public health institutions contending with the HIV epidemic. His research has been published in Technical Communication Quarterly and Computers and Composition, and his work will appear in The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric and upcoming issues of Rhetoric Review and Rhetoric of Health and Medicine.

Dr. Wilfredo Flores (he/him) is an incoming assistant professor of digital cultural rhetorics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He works from a disciplinary throughline between technical and professional communication, health and medical rhetorics, and digital cultural rhetorics, with focuses in health communication, Indigenous studies, and settler colonial studies. His research projects constellate across science, technology, and medicine, and he works to unsettle ongoing colonization and its effects within each domain, and his current projects focus on sexual health, pre-exposure prophylaxis, and digital platforms. As a community-engaged scholar, Wilfredo leverages his research findings and community work to build a better world for queer and trans people of color.