Assistant Lecturer in the English Department & LeaRN Program
First Year Seminar Coordinator
Hoyt 215, agernant@uwyo.edu
Biography
Allison Gernant teaches first-year composition, first year seminar, and courses in the LeaRN Program. Her research and teaching interests include active and engaged learning practices in higher education and interdisciplinary, problem-based learning. She enjoys theatre, gardening, and paddle boarding. In the winter, she volunteers with Laramie's Medicine Bow Nordic Association (MBNA) to teach cross-country skiing to children aged five to ten. She grew up in Worland, Wyoming.
Education
M.A. University of Wyoming
B.A. Grinnell College
Recent and Upcoming Courses
First Year Seminar: Exploring the Functions of Storytelling
First Year Seminar: America Then and America Now
Academic Success Skills
College Composition and Rhetoric
College Composition and Rhetoric II
Technical Writing in the Professions
Writing for Non-Profits
Selected Publications/Awards
Fred Slater Teaching Award, UW's Department of English 2022 & 2018
UW's PIE (Promoting Intellectual Engagement in the First Year) Award 2018 & 2019
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award for “Courageous Community Collaboration,” co-sponsored
by The Shepard Symposium on Social Justice; UW’s Social Justice Research Center; Committee
on Women and People of Color; The Good Mule Project; MLK Days of Dialogue, University
of Wyoming 2017
ECTL's Ellbogen Outstanding Graduate Assistant Teaching Award, UW 2003
