Dr. Flourice W. Richardson is an Assistant Professor and Director of Technical and Professional Writing in the Department of English at North Carolina A&T State University. She earned her Ph.D. in English Studies and a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from Illinois State University. She also holds an M.A. in English and African American Literature from NC A&T and a graduate certificate in Technical and Professional Communication from East Carolina University.

Her research centers on the intersections of race, gender, rhetoric, and technology, with a growing emphasis on AI ethics and social justice. She is currently working on two major projects:

• Consent Denied: Black Women, Eugenics, and the Politics of Forced Reproduction (co-authored with Kimberly C. Harper), forthcoming in 2027 as part of the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine series.
• “Preparing for (Almost) Everything: A Practical Guide to Tech Comm Budgets, Staffing, and Curriculum Development,” a chapter in Bridging Pedagogy and Practice: Reimagining TPC through Black Methodologies and Industry Collaboration.

Her published work includes:

• “The Eugenics Agenda: Deliberative Rhetoric and Therapeutic Discourse of Hate,” in Communicating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Technical Communication (2014)
• “Exploring Afrofuturism as a Tool to Dismantle Hegemony in Octavia Butler’s ‘The Evening and the Morning and the Night,’” in Introduction to Afrofuturism: A Mixtape in Black Literature & Arts (2024)
• “From Aunt Jemima to Auntie: Using Black Feminist Rhetorical Practices in the TPC Classroom,” in the Routledge Handbook on Technical & Professional Communication (2025)
• “Enhancing University Curricula with Integrated AI Ethics Education: A Comprehensive Approach,” in SIGCSE TS 2025 Conference Proceedings (2024)

She is also co-authoring “Mothering Blackness: An Alchemy of Resistance,” an autoethnographic article on culturally grounded organizing among Black doctoral students at predominantly white institutions. She presented this work at the 2024 Rhetoric Society of America Conference in Denver.

Dr. Richardson has received multiple honors for her teaching and scholarship, including the 2012 CCCC Scholars for the Dream Award, the CPTSC Diversity Award, Illinois Diversifying Faculty Fellowship, Legacy of Leadership recognition, and the Outstanding Program Award. She was named 2025 Teacher of the Year for the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at NC A&T and received the 2023–24 RCC Faculty Adopter Award from the Center for Applied Data Science at Winston-Salem State University for her work related to AI-ethics and writing studies collaborative research

She is a sought-after speaker across disciplines including English, education, and communication, known for her critical insight, commitment to social justice, and passion for transformative teaching.