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Lisa A Flores

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Professor, Department of Communication; Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, College of Media, Communication, and Information, University of Colorado

Biography

Lisa is Professor and Associate Dean. Her interests lie in rhetoric and critical race/gender/queer studies. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including three national book prizes for Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the “Illegal” Immigrant and is active on campus and in professional organizations.

Scholarly beginnings

A research idea

Envisioning possible futures in the field of communication and media studies

Learn more about Prof. Flores’ journey

Selected readings

• Flores, L. A. (2020). Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric & the Making of “Illegality”. Penn State University Press.

• Flores, L. A., & Villarreal, M. A. (2020). Unmasking “ignorance”. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 106(3), 310-315.

• Flores, Lisa A. (2018). Laboring to belong: Differentiation, spatial relocation, and the ironic presence of (un)documented immigrants in the united farm workers’ ‘Take Our Jobs’ campaign, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 21(3), 447-480.

• Flores, L. A., & Sims, C. D. L. (2016). The zero-sum game of race and the familiar strangeness of President Obama. Southern Communication Journal, 81(4), 206-222.

• Flores, L.A., Orbe, M.P., & Allen, Brenda J. (Eds.). (2008). Intercultural Communication in a Transnational World: International and Intercultural Communication Annual. Washington DC: National Communication Association.