Lisa Flores

Lisa Flores is the Josephine Berry Weiss Chair of the Humanities and holds a joint appointment as Professor in Communication Arts and Sciences and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on intersectional rhetorical racialization, including Chicana feminism, masculinity studies, whiteness studies, and border rhetorics. Her 2020 book Deportable and Disposable received multiple prestigious awards from the Rhetoric Society of America and National Communication Association.

Current projects explore mobility and containment as rhetorical frameworks for understanding historical and contemporary border politics. Flores’ work bridges critical race, gender, and queer theory with public discourse analysis.

Affiliations include the Willard Building office in University Park, PA. She actively contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of humanities and social justice.