Allison Gernant

Allison Gernant teaches first-year seminars, first year composition, courses in the Bridge Program and the English Department, and coordinates UW First Year Seminars.  Her research and teaching interests include learning about successful strategies for first-year college students; role playing games in higher education, and using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to promote social justice in university classrooms. She enjoys theatre, fly-fishing, and going on walks around Laramie with her dog, Chester. In the long winters, she volunteers with Laramie's Medicine Bow Nordic Association (MBNA) to teach cross-country skiing to children ages five to ten.

 

Education 

M.A. University of Wyoming

B.A. Grinnell College

 

Recent and Upcoming Courses

America Then & America Now

Happiness and the Good Life

First Year Experience: The Geography of Bliss (study abroad class in Costa Rica)

First Year Seminar: Greenwich Village 1913: Suffrage, Labor and the New Woman

Academic Success Skills

Practicum in College Teaching

College Composition and Rhetoric I

College Composition and Rhetoric II

Technical Writing in the Professions

Writing for Non-Profits

 

Selected Awards

Exceptional Service Award for Organization of the Matthew Shepard 25th Memorial

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