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Elizabeth Wardle

Elizabeth Wardle is the Roger and Joyce Howe Distinguished Professor of Written Communication and Director of the Roger and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami University. She was Chair of the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida (UCF), and Director of Writing Programs at UCF and University of Dayton. These experiences fed her interest in how students learn and repurpose what they know in new settings. With Linda Adler-Kassner, she is co-editor of Naming  What  We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies (2015), winner of the WPA Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Discipline (2016), and of (Re)Considering What We Know: Learning Thresholds in Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy; with Rita Malenczyk, Susan Miller-Cochran, and Kathleen Blake Yancey, she is co-editor of Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity (2018). Her current research focuses on how to enact grassroots change via writing across the curriculum programs, and her forthcoming co-edited collection with faculty from across disciplines is Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices: Innovating Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines (2022).

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