Presented by the Faculty of Arts, the annual Awards of Excellence celebrate academic community members for their excellence in teaching and significant contributions to the student academic experience.
Since joining the Department of English in 2021, Dr. Andrews has transformed the learning experience for students both in and out of the classroom. Dr. Andrews draws on her life experience as an academic to design a challenging, inclusive, and supportive learning environment for her students. Using a student-centered pedagogical approach focused on personalized feedback and mentorship, Dr. Andrews encourages her students to ask questions and take risks in their intellectual and writing pursuits.
Outside of the classroom, Dr. Andrews has paved the way for creative writing students looking to deepen their scholarly knowledge and skills, taking a modernized approach to
reinvigorating the undergraduate curriculum and developing a graduate Creative Writing track. She also contributes to the larger writing community through public engagement and mentorships.
The 2025 Faculty of Arts Distinguished Teaching Award (APUO) thoughtfully recognizes Dr. Andrews’s continued commitment to leading through action by describing her as a “truly deserving recipient”. Congratulations! Biography of Dr. Kimberly Quiogue Andrews (courtesy of www.kqandrews.com)
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews (she/they) is a Filipinx-American poet and literary critic. She is the author of BETWEEN, winner of the New Women’s Voices award, and A Brief History of Fruit, winner of the Akron Prize for poetry. Her scholarly monograph, The Academic Avant-Garde is out now with Johns Hopkins University Press. Her critical work has won the Ralph Cohen Prize from New Literary History and a development grant from the American Council of Learned Societies.
Born in Philadelphia and raised in the Lehigh Valley, she received her BA in creative writing from The Johns Hopkins University, an MFA in poetry from Penn State University, and a PhD in English Language and Literature from Yale University.
Her most recent courses at the University of Ottawa include ENG 4397: The Rectangle and ENG 3359: American Poetry 1900-Present.