Avery Edenfield

Biography

Avery Edenfield is an associate professor of rhetoric and technical communication in the Department of English at Utah State University. Dr. Edenfield's 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. His work has appeared in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Technical Communication, Nonprofit Quarterly, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Communication Design Quarterly. Through Dr. Edenfield's work in technical communication and gender studies, he has mentored students on research projects around queer theory, feminist theory, community rhetorics, and similar adjacent topics.