In July of 2019, Dr. Leonardo Flores will assume the position of department chair for the Department of English, in the College of Arts and Sciences at Appalachian State University. Flores joins Appalachian from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM), where he has been Interim Director of English since 2017. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Leonardo Flores served as Associate Dean of Assessment and Educational Technologies at UPRM, a position he held for four years before accepting a year-long Fulbright at the University of Bergen, Norway, to focus on his work in digital culture.
“It’s a pleasure to welcome Dr. Flores to his new role as the Department Chair of English. His administrative experience as well as his scholarly background will serve the department well. I appreciate Dr. Orvis’s leadership as the chair of the search and the work of all the committee members to recruit Dr. Flores,” said Dean, Neva J. Specht, College of Arts and Sciences.
A leading voice in digital humanities, Flores has earned accolades for his scholarly and creative achievements in the burgeoning fields of electronic literature and digital media criticism, including editing “Electronic Literature Collection, Vol. 3,” the world’s largest repository of literature written expressly for digital presentation and consumption. Flores’s articles have appeared in “Metaphor, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics,” “Cultural Studies Review” and other journals as well as in edited collections such as “The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media” and “Electronic Literature: Contexts, Forms, and Practices.”
In July, Flores will begin his three-year term as President of the Electronic Literature Organization while continuing to serve on the steering committee for the Red de Literatura Electrónica Latinoamerica. In addition to his substantial administrative experience and cutting-edge scholarly profile, Flores brings to our campus community a commitment to pedagogical innovation and interdisciplinarity, having developed courses such as his “Digital Humanities Internship” at the intersection of literature, writing technologies and media. Flores earned his Ph.D. in English at the University of Maryland, College Park.
For more information, please visit http://leonardoflores.net.
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About the Department of English
The Department of English at Appalachian State University is committed to outstanding work in the classroom, the support and mentorship of students, and a dynamic engagement with culture, history, language, theory and literature. The department offers master’s degrees in English and rhetoric and composition, as well as undergraduate degrees in literary studies, film studies, creative writing, professional writing and English education. Learn more at https://english.appstate.edu.
Dr. Leonardo Flores, Department Chair of English starting in July 2019, photo submitted
Dr. Leonardo Flores, Department Chair of English starting in July 2019, photo submitted