Travel logistics and hotels
Venue
We will be hosting this year's conference at the SLCC Miller Campus in Sandy, UT at the Professional Development Center and Karen Gail Miller Conference Center (9750 South 300 West, Sandy, Utah 84070).
All meals and events will take place in this building, and we can arrange for temporary parking permits for those needing parking.
Travel
- Flying: Salt Lake City Airport is a large international airport located about 11 miles from our campus. It is about 4 miles northwest of downtown.
- Area public transportation: Utah Transit Authority offers local buses, trains, and the regional Frontrunner. While SLCC does not have a train station, the buses do come to campus, although the drop-off area is across campus from the AAB building (about a 5-10 minute walk).
- Rideshare: Both Lyft and Uber have large presences in SLC, and are easy to use and access
Hotels
While we are not reserving a block of rooms to keep conference costs down, there are a number of hotels at various price points and locations to fit your needs. NOTE: there are no hotels in walking distance of campus, so plan for carpooling or rideshare if you do not have your own vehicle with you.
Close to campus (1-4 miles)
- Hyatt House Salt Lake City/ Sandy (1.2 miles) ~$153 for one room and ~$260 for a 2 br suite
- Residence In, Salt Lake/ Sandy (.6 mile) ~$150/ night
- Hilton Garden Inn Salt Lake/ Sandy (.6 mile) ~$150+/ night
Downtown (~15 miles from the Miller Campus)
- Hyatt House Salt Lake City/ Downtown (close to the Delta Center and the Gateway shopping center) ~$350/ night
- The Grand America (SLC's most iconic hotel, close to downtown dining and entertainment) ~$300-350/ night
- Little America (historic motor lodge and conference hotel, next to the Grand America) from $160/night
- Salt Lake Marriot Downtown at City Creek (very centrally located with great access to dining and shopping) from $225/night
Call for Presentations
“Show Your Work: The Importance of Process”
ChatGPT’s promise of painless, tepid writing has sent shockwaves through the discipline of English, causing many of us to wonder if we will be outsourced to soulless Large Language Models. And while the allure of having an AI solve your writing problems is undeniable, it represents a troubling new facet of the writing situation—a final product with no process.
The traditional approach to teaching writing emphasizes process from invention to final product. But, how often do we emphasize process in other parts of our professional lives? How do we evaluate the processes that lead us to new insights and ways of knowing? It is this emphasis on process, in our writing, in our academic and personal lives, that separates us from the machines, and it is this process work, messy, troubling, and beautiful, that we want to explore in this conference.
We invite presentations which address any of the following:
- The process of teaching writing
- Teaching the process of writing
- The process of professionalization
- Personal creation processes
- The role of process-less writing in our classrooms and professional lives
- Collaboration and shared processes
We welcome panels, individual papers, multi-modal presentations, workshops, performances, and roundtables from all areas of English studies for the 2023 conference.
Please send any inquiries to tycawest@gmail.com.
Proposals should be submitted June 15th, 2023. Presenters will be notified by July 21st, 2023 and must accept invitation to present and register for the conference by August 25th, 2023.
