Apologies for reaching out on a Friday evening, but we are excited to share some info about the upcoming TYCA-West virtual conference and hope you will forgive this intrusion into your plans for the long weekend.
TYCA-West is hosting its first ever virtual conference this year on June 12-13.
"Beyond Boundaries: Coming Together in a Time of Division" promises to be an engaging and informative event and we hope that you will join us. Registration is $25 for full-time faculty and $15 for part-time faculty, graduate students, and community members/visitors (non-presenting), payable to TYCA-West via PayPal once you’ve registered.
As the CFP for this year’s conference notes, no matter how or where we engage with the academic world, "we are all brought together by our belief that English communication is a vital skill for all of our students." This year’s virtual conference is a chance to come together online from our various locations "to share ideas, to grapple with difficult questions, and to focus on what really matters in our classrooms."
We are excited and honored to announce the following featured keynote presentations for this year’s TYCA-West conference:
- Sarah Z. Johnson will speak about the role which AI plays in the work we do as teachers of English in the first two years of college. She will share thoughts on how we can build AI literacies into our curriculum and revise outcomes to reflect AI literacies and will also offer an overview of emerging issues and preview oncoming work on AI from the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on AI and Writing.
- Holly Hassel and Cassie Phillips will join us to speak about their book Materiality and Writing Studies: Aligning Labor, Scholarship, and Teaching. Winner of the 2024 Best Book Award from the Council of Writing Program Administrators, S=Holly and Cassie’s book addresses issues of access and "the material realities and the needs of our students and our instructors."
More details about the conference including a schedule of breakout sessions and other virtual activities will be available soon. In the meantime, please visit the conference website at tycawest with any questions.
We hope you will join us next month!
Anne Canavan, Joanne Giordano, Stephanie Maenhardt, and Gin Schwarz
Your Friendly Neighborhood Conference Planning Committee