Cody Brown receives the Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

Guided by what he calls a “pedagogy of attention and rapport,” Cody has consistently fostered engaging classrooms that awaken students’ investment in critical analysis, confidence in their own perspectives, and active participation in meaningful scholarly dialogue. By bringing a sense of play to the classroom, he helps lessen the stakes of academic work and diffuse anxiety around written assignments. He has demonstrated teaching excellence across a diverse range of subjects—including political rhetoric and comics, adventure writing, environmental literary criticism, and media studies—as reflected in outstanding student evaluations across the board.

Cody has also been relied upon in roles of significant responsibility, including serving as a replacement instructor and teaching higher-level courses typically reserved for the most experienced teaching assistants (TAs). Beyond his own teaching, he has made lasting contributions as the department’s TA Mentor, leading pedagogy workshops on topics such as generative AI in the classroom, lesson planning, and marking. He has also supported TAs in navigating workplace issues, achieving work-life balance, and developing teaching best practices.