Avery Edenfield, Ph.D.

Field: English
Areas of Focus: Community Engagement, Gender Studies, LGBTQIA Issues, Rhetoric, Technical Communications

Expertise

• technical communication
• intersectional gender studies
• health and medicine rhetoric
• technology studies
• community engagement and activism
• cultural rhetorics
• trans studies

Bio

Avery Edenfield is an associate professor of rhetoric and technical communication in the Department of English at Utah State University. His research agenda works at the intersections of technical, cultural, and public rhetorics with attention to the technical writing strategies marginalized communities employ for self-advocacy, particularly in extra-institutional contexts. Avery has recently been appointed as the Inaugural Director for the Center for Intersectional Gender Studies and Research.