McKinley Green

Assistant Professor

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

McKinley Green (he/him) in an Assistant professor of English and the Director of Professional and Technical Writing MA Programs at George Mason University. His teaching and research are located at the intersection of technical communication, rhetorics of health and medicine, and community-based research. His current scholarship focuses on sexual health risk communication around HIV/AIDS and investigates how young people living with HIV understand, communicate about, and mitigate the health risks that are most important to their lives. His research has been published in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Computers and Composition.

Selected Publications

Green, M. (2026). Trans and Queer Visibility in an Era of Hyper Surveillance: A User Experience Study of University Systems for Sharing Gender Pronouns. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 56(1), 35-60.

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

SIGDOC Design Justice Grant - 2026

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"

Dissertations Supervised

Kerry Smith, The Effect of Affect: Hostile Rhetoric in Abortion Discourses (2026)