2023 TYCA-SE Conference

The Roaring 20s:
Celebrating a Century of Resilience

Chattanooga, Tennessee
February 22-25, 2023

The TYCA-SE 2023 Program is here!
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Registration

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Things to Do and Places to Eat

Click the link below for a comprehensive, curated list of places to eat and things to do in and around downtown Chattanooga. Most are within walking distance, but city transit services and standard rideshare services are also an option.

Your Guide to Chattanooga

Featured Speakers

Opening Session

Charles Dodd White is the author of four novels and a short story collection. He has received the Appalachian Book of the Year Award and the Chaffin Award for his fiction. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he teaches English at Pellissippi State Community College. His memoir, A Year Without Months, is now available from West Virginia University Press.

Luncheon

Christian J. Collier is a Black Southern writer, arts organizer, and teaching artist who resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is the author of Greater Ghost (Four Way Books, 2024), and the chapbook The Gleaming of the Blade, the 2021 Editors’ Selection from Bull City Press. His works have appeared in December, North American Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. A 2015 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellow, he is also the winner of the 2022 Porch Prize in Poetry and the 2020 ProForma Contest from Grist Journal.

Pre-Conference Workshops

Make plans to get to Chattanooga on Wednesday to join us for the Chair’s Reception in the TYCAT Speakeasy and start the conference right with these great pre-conference workshops offered the next morning.

“Beyond the Classroom: Developing Self-Sufficient Writers through Metacognition”
presented by Jennifer Duncan, Associate Professor of English at Perimeter College at Georgia State University (GA)
9:00-10:30am, Thursday, February 23, The Crutchfield Room
As we guide our students through the writing process, what skills are they actually taking away from our class? What techniques can we use to teach writing and to train our students to be independent writers and thinkers once we are no longer around to guide or assess their work? Let’s talk about strategies for increasing student selfreflection and metacognition - strategies that will encourage life-long, independent writers, strategies that will take them beyond our classroom.

“Teaching and Learning Apps That Will Have Your Students Roaring Like It’s the 20s (The 2020s)!”
presented by Sean Glassberg, English Instructor and Director of Faculty Development at Horry-Georgetown Technical College (SC)
9:00-10:30am, Thursday, February 23, The Gold Room
Some of our more experienced English faculty members were born closer to 1920 than 2020, but many of our younger students weren’t even born in the 20th century. Today’s students learn in a much different environment than the one in which we learned, and we need to use the tools at our disposal to meet them where they are: in a digital mobile world. In this workshop, we’ll explore how to effectively use Remind (a messaging tool), Screencast-o-matic (a screen recording tool), Padlet (a communication board), Flip (a video communication tool), and a few other apps to help your students learn and stay engaged. Bring your laptop for maximum benefit!

“Celebrating 100 Years of Resilience in the Visual Arts”
presented by Adera Causey, Curator of Education at the Hunter Museum of American Art
10:00-11:30am, Thursday, February 23, Meet in hotel lobby at 9:45am.
Join a curated tour of the Hunter Museum’s nationally-recognized collection of American art for an exploration of resplendence, resistance, and resilience in works by artists from the 1920s, featuring the art of Black Southerners Nellie Mae Rowe and Beauford Delaney. Linger after the tour to browse the rest of the collection and then head to lunch at your own expense in the adjacent Bluff View Art District before returning to the Read House for the opening session. For more information on the Hunter, visit https://www.huntermuseum.org/. The cost of the tour is $10.

Hotel Information

We’re so excited to host TYCA-SE 2023 at this Chattanooga icon, the Read House, perfectly restored to its jazz-era glory. The 4-star landmark has hosted everyone from Winston Churchill to Elvis to Oprah, and, in 2022, celebrates 150 years as the longest continuously operated hotel in the South. Make your hotel reservations now at the Read House. The rate is $169/night for single, double, triple, or quad occupancy. Parking is an additional charge. The deadline for reservations is February 1, 2023.

NOTE: Our block of standard rooms at the $169/night rate has filled, but a limited number of Read House Historic Tower Rooms have been added at a higher rate of $189/night plus tax. At this time (01.26.23), both King and Double Queen rooms are available.

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