Faculty Profiles

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 through ethnography. For five years before coming to Texas State, Dr. Eger worked as a researcher for the National Center of Women and Information Technology. 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.