McKinley Green

Assistant Professor

Writing and Rhetoric: Professional and Technical Writing, 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 understand, communicate about, and mitigate the health risks that are most important to their lives. This project works from a premise that people living with HIV have developed complex rhetorical strategies to communicate about HIV risk, and that these situated communication practices can offer models for public health institutions invested in HIV risk reduction. His research has been published in Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Technical Communication Quarterly, Computers and Composition, and Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture.

Selected Publications

Ranade, N., Green, M., Veeramoothoo, C., Card, D., & Hardin, A. (Eds.). (2024). Proceedings of the 42nd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. Association for Computing Machinery. dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3641237

Green, M., Crutcher, V., Lune, O., Mutmainna, M., Lenoir, R., Urvina, G., Schuster, A., Brown, C. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine 7(2) (Summer 2024). “Methodologies of in/equity: Participatory and narrative approaches to research with marginalized communities. https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/article/view/1960

Green, M., Flores, W., & Sanchez, F. (2024) Special Issue of Rhetoric Of Health And Medicine 70(1), “Queer And Trans Health Justice: Interventions, Perspectives, And Questions” https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/article/view/2425

Green, M. (2023) “On (the limits of) reciprocity: Navigating shared identity and difference in community-engaged research.” Reflections. 22.2. 40-68. https://reflectionsjournal.net/2023/06/on-the-limits-of-reciprocity-navigating-shared-identity-and-difference-in-community-engaged-research/

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

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)

Education

BA, St. Olaf College

MA, Michigan State University

PhD, The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Recent Presentations

Computers and Writing - Athens, GA. (2025) Flores, W. and Green, M. (2025, May 16). "Queer (in)Visibility and Surveillance in Online Archives."

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing - Virtual (2024)
"Artificial Intelligence & Queer Health Communication: Social Justice Implications for Technical Communicators"

Conference on College Composition and Communication
Spokane, WA (2024). Gibson, K., Green, M., Martinez, T., Nusbaumer, N. & Wiggins, J. “Labor and Precarity: Graduate Students Navigate the Neoliberal Academy”

Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium - Minneapolis, MN (2023). Flores, W. Mitchell, R., & Green, M. “Erotic Interfaces, Promiscuous Dwellings: The Risky Rhetorics of Sexual Health"

Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium - Minneapolis, MN (2023). Green, M., Crutcher, V., Lune, O., Mutmainna, M., Lenoir, R., Urvina, G., Schuster, A., Brown, C. “Methodologies of in/equity: Participatory and narrative approaches to research with marginalized communities”

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