PhD Candidate Tanner Menard Receives 2025 Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award

This page is about an English PhD candidate, Tanner Menard, who received the Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award. It describes his teaching across undergraduate courses, including research writing, creative writing, and courses in Indigenous literature. It also highlights that he proposed and developed two original courses: Perspectives in Indigenous Literature and World Indigenous Literature, offered through ENGL 211.

The text describes classroom activities and teaching approaches rather than an academic curriculum. Menard introduces learners to traditional genres such as the short story and elegy and also invites exploration of hybrid and experimental forms in ENGL 223. It also mentions memory mapping exercises, ancestor mapping, and the use of Indigenous stories, science fiction, experimental poetry, spiritual life stories, digital culture, and traditional texts.

Modules

• Perspectives in Indigenous Literature
• World Indigenous Literature