Leonardo Flores

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About

Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. He served as President of the Electronic Literature Organization from 2019 to 2022. He was the 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway and was a professor in the English Department at University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus from 1994 to 2019. His research areas are electronic literature, with a focus on digital poetry, and the history and strategic growth of the field. He’s known for I ♥ E-Poetry, the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, “Third Generation Electronic Literature” and the Antología Lit(e)Lat, Volume 1. For more information on his current work, visit leonardoflores.net.

Education

Here’s a link to my curriculum vitae.

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To understand how complex the issue of Puerto Rico’s status is for us, see this piece which generates points in favor and against statehood, commonwealth, independence, and even participating in referendums on our status. https://losangelesreview.org/its-complicated-by-leonardo-flores/ (2024-10-28 ↗)

When a comedian at a Trump rally characterizes Puerto Rico as “a floating island of garbage” this is not about environmental issues: he’s describing how they see my people. He is saying the quiet part out loud. And we remember how poorly Trump treated our island after Hurricane Maria. #puertorico (2024-10-28 ↗)

The MLA-CCCC Task Force has a new working paper out, titled “Building a Culture for Generative AI Literacy in College Language, Literature, and Writing.” https://aiandwriting.hcommons.org/working-paper-3/ (2024-10-17 ↗)

We are hiring! Come join us in a thriving, nurturing English Department that serves prosperous Appalachian State University in the gorgeous mountains of Boone, North Carolina. https://english.appstate.edu/news/hiring-two-tt-assistant-professors-early-american-literature-and-victorian-literature #academicjobs (2024-10-16 ↗)

Here's a recording of my recent keynote at UCF, "The Digital Humanities in an AI Inf(l)ected World. https://leonardoflores.net/blog/presentations-2/keynote-the-digital-humanities-in-an-ai-inflected-world/ (2024-10-09 ↗)

Blog Posts

My 2012-2013 Fulbright Year: A Retrospect (I ♥ E-Poetry @MLA Commons, 2013-07-15)
I ♥ E-Poetry: 500 Entries Later (I ♥ E-Poetry @MLA Commons, 2013-06-23)
Hello MLA Commons (I ♥ E-Poetry @MLA Commons, 2013-06-12)

Professor and Chair of English

Appalachian State University