Faculty Profile for Dr. Elizabeth Kamman Eger

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Dr. Elizabeth K. Eger is an Associate Professor and Regents' Teacher in the Department of Communication Studies at Texas State University. She obtained her PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder where she also received graduate certificates in Critical Theory and in Women and Gender Studies.

Dr. Eger teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Organizational Communication, Qualitative Methods, Gender and Communication, LGBTQ+ Communication, and Work, Identity, and Difference. Her qualitative, critical, and rhetorical communication research, pedagogy, and community outreach investigates contemporary work and organizations as both excessive and inaccessible. Her research examines how we understand ourselves in relationship to work, how communication of difference impacts our organizational and life experiences, how collectives create organizational identities, and how work impacts our life and health. Her newest, ongoing research examines presenteeism (working while sick), LGBTQ+ workers and health inequity and justice, libraries and rural community resiliency collaboration, and COVID-19 organizational, work, and health communication practices.

Her research has also explored identity-based organizing (collectives who organize around shared identities and for intersectional needs), including long-term ethnographies of a transgender outreach center and a computing camp for girls of color. For five years before coming to Texas State, Dr. Eger worked as a researcher for the National Center of Women and Information Technology to advance the meaningful participation of women and underrepresented people in IT careers and education. Her research appears in Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, International Journal of Business Communication, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, and the third edition of The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Communication.

Teaching Interests

Communication and Gender
Organizational Communication
Work, Identity, and Difference
Qualitative Methods
Diversity and Communication
LGBTQ+ Studies
Rhetorical and Critical Methods

Research Interests

Organizational Communication
Difference and Intersectionality
Work-Life and Health Communication
LGBTQ+ Work and Health
Transgender and Queer Communication
Ethnography and Qualitative Inquiry
Organizational Identity and Identification
Rhetorical Criticism and Critical Media Studies
Social Justice, Engaged, and Applied Scholarship
Technology Work and Education Inclusion
Community and Organizational Collaboration
Libraries and ​Community Resiliency