Elizabeth Wardle
2025 Recipient - Professor of English
Elizabeth Wardle, the Roger and Joyce Howe Distinguished Professor of Written Communication and the director of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence (HCWE), is “field-defining in the area of writing about writing and one of the key figures in the scholarship on threshold concepts,†one of her nominators wrote.
Elizabeth Wardle
Since Wardle joined Miami as director of the HCWE in 2016, the center has become a national model for supporting and developing innovative teachers of writing in every discipline. She is a leader in Miami’s efforts to be one of the premiere institutions for outstanding faculty development, especially in the area of writing pedagogy across the curriculum, according to her nominators.
As director of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence, “one of my first acts was to create the Howe Faculty Writing Fellows program, which drew on all I had previously learned about writing instruction and how conceptions and practices change,” wrote Wardle, who previously served as professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida (2008-2016) and as assistant professor of English at the University of Dayton (2003-2008).
Under Wardle’s direction, in 2022 alone, the HCWE received three national recognitions:
- The Association for Writing Across the Curriculum's (AWAC) Exemplary Enduring Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program award.
- The Conference on College Composition and Communication's Writing Program Certificate of Excellence.
- The Council of Writing Program Administrators' Outstanding Scholarship Award for a book chapter that describes the HCWE’s Faculty Writing Fellows Program.
Also in 2022, she published a co-authored book on the method used in the Faculty Writing Fellows program and made it available to faculty leaders at other institutions. “,” published with an open-source academic press, has been downloaded nearly 17,000 times.