McKinley Green

Assistant Professor

Professional and Technical Writing, Rhetoric and Composition, Queer Rhetorics, HIV/AIDS, Health Communication, Risk Communication

Dr. McKinley Green (he/him) studies queer rhetorics, community-based research, and sexual health risk communication around HIV/AIDS. His current research project investigates how young people living with HIV communicate about HIV risk on social media and dating applications. This project works from a premise that people living with HIV have developed complex rhetorical strategies to communicate about HIV, and that these situated communication practices can offer models for public health institutions invested in HIV risk reduction. His research has been published in Technical Communication Quarterly, Computers and Composition, and Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture.

Selected Publications

Green, M. (2021). Risking Disclosure: Unruly Rhetorics and Queer (Ing) HIV Risk Communication on Grindr. Technical Communication Quarterly 30(3), 271-284. Special issue on Unruly Bodies, Intersectionality, and Marginalization in Health and Medical Discourse. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2021.1930185

Green, M. (2020). Resistance as participation: Queer theory’s applications for HIV health technology design. Technical Communication Quarterly, 1-14. (just published). https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2020.1831615

Green, M. (2019). Smartphones, Distraction Narratives, and Flexible Pedagogies: Students’ Mobile Technology Practices in Networked Writing Classrooms. Computers and Composition, 52, 91-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2019.01.009.

Grants and Fellowships

Stage Two Progressive Grant - Collaboration with The University of Minnesota Youth and AIDS Projects - Department of Pediatrics Research Council - The University of Minnesota - 2021 ($10,000)

Stage One Progressive Grant - Collaboration with The University of Minnesota Youth and AIDS Projects - Department of Pediatrics Research Council - The University of Minnesota - 2021 ($5,000)

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship - The Graduate School - The University of Minnesota – 2020 ($25,000)

Courses Taught

ENGH 388: Professional and Technical Writing

ENGH 488/ENGH 611: Studies in Rhetoric: Social Justice

Education

BA, St. Olaf College

MA, Michigan State University

PhD, The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Recent Presentations

Conference on Community Writing - Washington DC (2021) "How to Have Theory in An(other) Epidemic: Re-remembering HIV via Queer and Trans Community Literacies"

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing- Virtual Conference (2021) “Acknowledging The Margin as The Center: What Technical Communication Can Learn By Making Space for Other/ed Methods of Knowledge Production.

Conference on College Composition and Communication - Spokane, WA (2021) “Embodying Agency: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Resistance in Online Medical Communities”