She taught rhetoric and writing at Oregon State University, where she worked as a professor from 1980 to 2013.
Ede has received awards for her scholarly work from the Modern Language Association, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and the International Writing Center Association.
[2] Ede attended Ohio State University, where she received a Bachelor of Science, after which she went on to earn a Master of Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, before returning to Ohio State University for her PhD.
[3] At Ohio State University, Ede studied Victorian Literature and completed her dissertation on Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll.
[5] Ede married artist Greg Pfarr.