Michelle D. Trim

Social Commentary/ Public Writing

Trim, Michelle. Building a Kill Switch for the Terminator: A Case for Slow AI. ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society. 52 (1) 2023

Trim, Michelle. Faking it and Breaking it: Responsible AI is needed Now. ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society. 51 (3) 2022

Trim, Michelle. Computing Must Pay Attention to Outcomes to Achieve Equity. ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 51 (2) 2022

Trim, Michelle. Because I said so: Cultivating an Ethos of Social Responsibility in an age of Misinformation. ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 50 (2) 2021

Trim, Michelle. Refusing to unmake the lemonade, or how not to go back to normal. ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 50 (1) (April 2021), 15-18. 2021

Trim, Michelle. Corrections, repudiations, and revisions: how computing made 2020 a year for change ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 49 (3), 11-13, 2021.

Trim, Michelle. Essentialism is the Enemy of the Good: How the Myth of Objectivity is Holding Computing Back ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 49 (2), 11-13 2020.

Trim, Michelle. Moving from Consciousness-raising to Fostering a Social Conscience ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 49 (1), 11-12. 2020.

Trim, Michelle. Computing's social obligation. ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 48 (3-4), 13-14 2019.

Journal Articles

Trim, Michelle. “Going Beyond Good Intentions: Reconsidering Motivations and Examining Responsibility in Composition-based Service Learning.” Modern Language Studies. 39.1:66-81, 2009.

Chapters in Edited Collections

Trim, Michelle. “Articulating a Rhetoric of Agency for Pregnancy through Intersectionality: NAPW -The National Advocates for Pregnant Women.” The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How to Do It. Ed. Andrea O’Reilly. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press. 2011.

Trim, Michelle D. and Megan Lynn Isaac. “Reinventing Invention: Discovery and Investment in Writing” Writing Spaces. Eds. Charlie Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press. 2010.

Peer Reviewed Conference Journals, Proceedings, and Abstracts

Michelle Trim, Anthony Tuck, Mathew Rattigan, and Cole Reilly. Michelle Trim, Anthony Tuck. 2024. Digging Data: Using Archaeology to Teach Responsible Data Practices in a Study Abroad Context. (SIGCSE 2024), March 20 - 23, 2024, Portland, OR, USA. ACM, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630829

Michelle Trim and Paige Gulley. 2023. Imagining, Generating, and Creating Communication as Feminist Pedagogical Method for Teaching Computing Ethics. Proceedings of the October 2023 ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, 6 pages.

Michelle Trim, Siobhan Mei and Justin Obara. 2022. Connecting analysis, cultural competency, and technical writing in a computing context. Proceedings of the IEEE ProComm 2022 conference. July 17-21, 2022, Limerick Ireland, 7 pages.

Michelle Trim, Justin Obara, and Siobhan Mei. 2021. Opportunities for innovation gained by connecting a customized process document to the collaborative development of an asynchronous online writing course. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3472714.3473662

Trim, MD. and H. Nishad. We Learn by Doing: Modeling Inclusive Pedagogy in a Graduate CS Ethics Course2019 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2019, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/RESPECT46404.2019.8985698.

Ursula Wolz, Lina Battestilli, Bruce Maxwell, Susan Rodger, and Michelle Trim. 2018. Best Practices in Academia to Remedy Gender Bias in Tech. In Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 672-673. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3159450.3159618

Trim, Michelle. Increasing ethical awareness in [future] software developers using audience-based writing Michelle Trim August 2017 SIGDOC '17: Proceedings of the 35th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication

Michelle Trim, Neena Thota, Marc Liberatore, Tim Richards, Gordon Anderson, and William T. Verts. 2017. Innovation with scale: turning large class sizes into opportunities for pedagogical innovation. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. 32, 6 (June 2017), 183-186.

Trim, Michelle. “Instructions Not Included: How Writing Conferences Can Erect Barriers to Success for First Generation College Students” International Journal of Learning, 10, 2003.

Textbooks

Branscomb, H. Eric and Michelle Trim. Research Navigator Guide: English. 2e. New York: AB Longman/ Pearson Education Publishing. 2006. ISBN 0-321-49601-9

Trim, Michelle. What Every Student Should Know About... Practicing Peer Review. New York: AB Longman/ Westwood Publishing. 2006. ISBN 0-321-44848-0

Book Reviews and Review Essays

Trim, Michelle. “Review: Helen A. Berger and Douglas Ezzy, Teenage Witches: Magical Youth and the Search for Self “(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007), Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, 6:4, 2012.

Trim, Michelle. “Review: Figueira-McDonough, Josefina, and Rosemary C. Sarri, eds. Women at the Margins: Neglect, Punishment, and Resistance” International Social Science Review . Fall, 2003.

Trim, Michelle. “Counterfeit capital: searching for a silver lining in Bernadette Longo’s Spurious Coin.” ACM Journal of Computer Documentation 25(2): 63-65, 2001.

International and National Conferences

March 14-17 2018. CCCC Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO. “Classing Expertise: Language, Collaborative Labor, and WID”

February 20-24, 2018. SIGCSE '18. Baltimore, MD. Best Practices in Academia to Remedy Gender Bias in Tech Ursula Wolz, Lina Battestilli, Bruce Maxwell, Susan Rodger, Michelle Trim.

July 18-21, 2013. Council of Writing Program Administrators national conference, Savannah, GA, “Who Watches the Watchers: Rethinking the Role of WPA as Sole Observer”

Mar 13-17, 2013. Research Network Forum at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, NV, “Understanding Student Uses of Written Feedback” also served as discussion leader for both morning and afternoon sessions

May 24-27, 2012. Rhetoric Society of America, Philadelphia, PA, “Tea Shall Overcome: Questioning the Appropriation of Civil Rights Movement Rhetoric”

Mar 29-31, 2012. College English Association National Conference, Richmond, VA, “Trespassing Expertise: Partnering with Undergraduates in Composition Research”

Sep 23-24, 2011. Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy, Savannah, GA, “Resisting Automatic Adoption and Uncritical Use of Technology in Student Research”

Mar 17-20, 2010. CCCC Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY, “Research Paper Redux: Dialectic as Democratic Writing and Researched Argument”

Nov 12-15, 2009. National Women’s Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA. “Post-Feminist Amnesia: Negotiating Resistance to Feminist Histories”

Mar 29-30, 2008. College English Association National Conference, St. Louis, MO. “Just Because We Can: “The Good Rhetor as an Alternative to Fostering a Social Conscience”

Mar 22-25, 2006. CCCC Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, “Mind the Gap: Ethically Balancing Student [Under]-Preparedness with Institutional Expectations for Growth and Retention”

Mar 15-19, 2005. CCCC Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA, “Taking Responsibility for Community in Community-Based Learning Courses”

Nov 16-18, 2003. International Conference on Civic Education and Research, New Orleans, LA, “University or Community Service: Ethical Challenges Faced by Service Learning Approaches to Writing Instruction”

Jul 15-19, 2003. International Learning Conference, London, UK. “Instructions not included: Barriers to success for first generation college students in graduate school”

Regional Conferences

April 7-8, 2017. Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges — Northeastern Region, Albany, New York, “Innovation with Scale: Turning Large Class Sizes into Opportunities for Pedagogical Innovation” (Panel – with co-presenters Gordon Anderson, Marc Liberatore, Tim Richards, Neena Thota, and William Verts)

Oct 17, 2009. North Carolina Symposium on Writing, Raleigh, NC. Co-presenter with Megan Isaac, “Stressing Invention: Cultivating Investment in Writing After Years of Testing”

June 15, 2001. Computers and Writing Conference, Muncie, IN. “The Hypertext of Collaboration: Using a Web-based MOO to Facilitate Postmodern Collaboration in the College Classroom

External Grants Awarded

2022 Michelle Trim PI, with co-PI Anthony Tuck. The Classics and Informatics Data Literacy Partnership. New America Public Interest Technology Challenge grant $90,000. Facilitated creation of study abroad data science course at an active archaeological excavation in Murlo, Italy. Funded participation of 6 high economic need students. First course offering in summer 2023.

2021 Michelle Trim PI, with co-PIs Dr. Jaime Davila and Dr. Matthew Rattigan, and Senior personnel Dr. Marius Minea, Dr. Cheryl Swanier. Awarded $1,500,000.00 NSF #2130070 S-STEM: Boosting Access to Data Science Scholars, a project designed to provide 40 scholarships and associated student success-oriented enrichment programming to high economic need, academically talented 4-year and community college transfer students.

2020 Michelle Trim PI, with co-PI Dr. Dan Sheldon. Awarded $18,000 Google ExploreCSR grant to seed the EMBER (Energizing, Mentoring, and Broadening Exposure to Research). A one-credit research experience course targeting students without prior research experience, with an emphasis on supporting students whose identities are underrepresented in computing.

Internal Grants Awarded

2023 UMass Interdisciplinary Research Grant IDEA - Investigating Data Literacy Education using Archaeology. Project Partners: Rebecca Reznik-Zellen (UMass Libraries) and Anthony Tuck (Classics). $19,995.00. UMass

2011. “How do students use feedback.” Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning Scholar (SoTL research fellowship including $4000 research budget & 4 course releases over 2 yrs), Elon University.

2010. “Togetherness in Difference” Elon College of Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence Grant (with Stephen Braye, Barbara Gordon, Kathy Lyday-Lee, and Amanda Gallagher).(~$3000) Grant funded multi-event visits for two linguistic scholars. Visitors gave public lectures, hosted student Q&A sessions, and directed faculty development workshops. Elon University.

2010. Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning Grant for research examining student learning outcomes to the final project in GST 373:Technology and Human Agency. ($600) Funds supported an IRB-approved, filmed, focus group session with students from two previous semesters. Elon University.

2009-2010. Recipient of Elon Faculty Research and Development Grant, awarded as one course Release. Grant supported work on revision of traditional research paper assignment to dialectical research project in first year writing.

Recognition

2023 ACM member grade increased to Senior Member reflecting contributions and years of service in a computing context

Spring 2021. Awarded the ADVANCE Peer Faculty Mentor Award for CICS

AY 2019-2020. Awarded the CICS College Outstanding Teaching Award

Fall 2018. Nominated for the University Distinguished Teaching Award

Spring 2018. Nominated for the University Distinguished Teaching Award. UMass Amherst.

Fall 2017. Nominated for the University Distinguished Teaching Award. UMass Amherst.

2016. Teaching for Inclusiveness, Diversity and Equity Ambassador. $1500 award. In addition to attending multi-day workshop in summer and retreats throughout the academic year, charged with developing an inclusive teaching project to be disseminated at the college or university level. UMass Amherst.

2013. College of Arts and Sciences Nominee for University Faculty Excellence in Service Award.UNH.

2006. Departmental and College Nominee for the Young Faculty Teaching Award. Lander University.

2002. Campus Campaign Fellowship University “First Prize Award for Service.” Michigan Technological University.

Advising

• Informatics Major Advisor, UMass Amherst
• English and Professional Writing Major Advisor, UNH
• First Year Undeclared and English Major Advisor, Elon University
• English Major Advisor, Lander University

Mentoring

• 2016-2017. Mentored Honors Student, Elaina Bliss, for two course-related Honors projects resulting in a usable app and complete documentation. UMass
• 2011-2012. Director for undergraduate researchers Caitlin Tarantiles and Mason Sklut – co-investigators in “How Students Use Feedback Project.” Elon University. (IRB-approved 2011)
• 2010. Graduate teaching internship director/supervisor for Christine Gill. University of North Carolina Greensboro MA student.
• 2010-2011. Undergraduate Honors thesis director for Margaret Hemmingson, “Gender, Family and Domesticity in Supernatural and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Elon University
• 2010. Undergraduate research project advisor for Peyton Jenkins, “Fear and the Female Hero: An Examination of the Fear Response in Relation to Gender Identity and Performance of Heroines. Elon University
• 2009. Women and Gender Studies Internship Advisor for Joanna Rabiej, Women’s Resource Center, Burlington, North Carolina. Elon University.

2023-2026 Chair, ACM SIGCAS (Special Interest Group for Computers And Society) Elected volunteer role.

Informatics Program Director, CICS UMass

• Advise Prospective and Current Informatics Studnets
• Recruit, hire, and train Informatics Peer Advisors
• Create, maintain, and disseminate advising materials
• Arrange representation for and/or represent Informatics at recruiting events
• Act as a point of contact for faculty and advisors in other departments

CICS JYW Director

• Provide mentoring and pedagogical support to other CICS JYW faculty
• Maintain consistency across CICS JYW sections
• Maintain central repository for CICS JYW course materials
• Help determine number of sections needed annually
• Make staffing/hiring recommendations as needed

Previous
Director of First-Year Writing (UNH); Coordinator of Language & Writing Faculty (Elon)

Committee Work

Committees Chaired

UMass
• (Co-Chair) CARE (Committee Against Racism and for Equity) Core Committee
• FT JYW Lecturer Search Committee
• University Writing Committee
• Co-Chair CS Outreach Committee

UNH
• University Common Read Committee
• First-year Writing Advisory Committee

Lander University
• Departmental Writing Committee
• Departmental Technology Committee

Committee Membership (in addition to those above)

UMass
• General Education Council
• Status of Diversity at the University Council
• PT JYW Lecturer Search Committee
• CS Lecturer Search Committee
• Informatics Committee
• Undergraduate Program Committee
• Development Committee
• Ethics Education Committee

UNH
• Lecturer Search Committee
• University Assessment Committee

Elon Universty
• Common Reading Selection Committee
• University Hearing Board
• Women's and Gender Studies Advisory Board
• Assistant Professor of English Drama Search Committee
• Departmental Policy Committee
• Departmental Alumni Committee