Trent
Wintermeier
Curriculum
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EDUCATION
University of Texas at Austin 2022–2028
PhD, Rhetoric and Writing
Committee: Donnie Johnson Sackey (chair), Jacqueline Rhodes, Diane Davis, Casey Boyle
Graduate Certificate in Digital Studies
MA, English (Specialization in Rhetoric and Writing)
Exam Fields: Sound Studies, Digital Rhetoric, Community Literacy
Committee: Donnie Johnson Sackey (chair), Jacqueline Rhodes, Casey Boyle
University of Florida 2019–2021
BA, English (Magna Cum Laude)
Minor: Sociology
Advisors: Raul Sanchez (chair), Victor Del Hierro
Santa Fe Community College 2017–2019
AA, Liberal Arts (Distinction)
EMPLOYMENT
- UT Austin, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, Assistant Instructor 2024–
- UT Austin, Digital Writing & Research Lab, Assistant Director 2024–
- UT Austin, AVAnnotate, Graduate Research Assistant 2022–
- UT Austin, University Writing Center, Presentations Coordinator 2023–2025
- University of Florida, University Writing Center, Writing Tutor 2020–2021
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Clement, Tanya & Wintermeier, Trent. “Marked Sound: Rhetorical Listening and the Affordances of Digital Annotation.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 2025
- Wintermeier, Trent & Turner, Sam. “Symposium of Past CCCC Chairs.” In CCCC at 75 Years: Engaging our Abundant Past, Present, and Future.Spark!: A 4C4Equality Journal. 2025
- Burstajn-Illingworth, Zoe & Wintermeier, Trent. “Building Digital Exhibits of Annotated Audiovisual Artifacts with AVAnnotate.” Digital Library Federation Teaching Toolkit: Critical Digital Literacy. 2024
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- “Desperate Listening: Sensing Digital Systems in ‘The Hum’ Phenomenon,”Society for Social Studies of Science Conference, Individual Paper, Fall 2025
- “Sound Pedagogy: AVAnnotate and Listening to Learn,” Association ofComputers and the Humanities, Paper with Sam Turner, Summer 2025
- “Dissonant Rhetorics: Exhibiting Audiovisual Data on ‘The Hum’ with Scalar,” Sensing Beyond Boundaries: Technological Mediations of Perception and Experience, Computers and Writing Conference, Individual Paper, Summer 2025
- “Communicating Creative Research to Humanities Audiences with Twine,” DWRL Practicum Showcase, Digital Writing and Research Lab, Workshop, Spring 2025
- “Rhetorical Wastelands: Sound, Multimodality, Community,” Next-Generation Research in English, Modern Language Association, Individual Paper, Spring 2025
2024
- “Curating Multilingual Digital Exhibits with IIIF, GitHub, and Jekyll,”Association of Computers and The Humanities, Workshop with Sam Turner, Fall 2024
- “Sensing Emergency at Landfall,” Sensual Pedagogies, Society For The Study of Affect Conference, Individual Paper, Fall 2024
- “Innovations in Digital Exhibit Curation and Audiovisual Artifact Preservation,”Florida Digital Humanities Consortium, Workshop with Sam Turner, Fall 2024
- “Composing Local Listening,” DIY Methods Conference, Low-Carbon Research Methods Group, Individual Zine, Fall 2024
- “Radio Telescope Data Sonification as Rhetorical Practice,” Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations Conference, Individual Poster, Summer 2024
- “AVAnnotate,” Digital Humanities Inside Out SIG, Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations Conference, Individual Paper, Summer 2024
- “Desperate Media,” Computers and Writing Conference, Panel with Hannah Hopkins, Summer 2024
- “Listening and Annotating Spirituality in the Gloria Anzaldúa Archive,” Platforms, Power, and Pedagogy, Computers and Writing, Individual Paper, Summer 2024
- “Annotating Across Time and Space with AVAnnotate,” SpokenWeb Symposium, Workshop with Luke Sumpter, Summer 2024
- “Rhetorical Overhang and the Sonic Politics of Austin’s Data Centers,” Masculine Media, Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Individual Paper, Spring 2024
- “Curating AV Digital Exhibits with IIIF and the Gloria Anzaldúa and Stella Adler Archives,” Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Workshop with Tanya Clement and Sam Turner, Spring 2024
- “AVAnnotate,”Music Encoding Conference, Workshop with Sam Turner, Spring 2024
- “Desperate Media: Sustainability, Story, and Emergent Futures,”Rutgers-Camden Archive of Digital Ephemera Symposium, Workshop with Claire Fitch and Hannah Hopkins, Spring 2024
- “Stepping Stones: Reflecting on Relational Scholarly Practice,” Researcher Roles and Positionalities: On Working with Indigenous & Marginalized Communities in a Settler Context, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Paper with Sam Turner, Spring 2024
- “Just in Time: A Method for Annotating Literary Recordings,” Modern Language Association, Workshop with Zoe Burstajn-Illingworth, Spring 2024
2023
- “Creating and Sharing Audiovisual Exhibits,” Digital Library Federation Conference, Workshop with Zoe Burstajn-Illingworth, Fall 2023
- “Using IIIF and AV to Build Editions and Exhibits,” Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations Conference, Workshop with Tanya Clement, Vera Burrows, and Zoe Burstajn-Illingworth, Summer 2023
- “Listening and Looking for Gaps in the Audiovisual Digital Record,”Association of Computers and the Humanities, Roundtable with Matthew Kilbane, Tanya Clement, Vera Burrows, and Zoe Burstajn-Illingworth, Spring 2023
- “Introduction to Annotating Audio and Video with AudiAnnotate,” PCL Digital Humanities Workshop Series, Individual Workshop, Spring 2023
- “Annotating a Duality of Space in Muriel Rukeyser’s ‘The Speed of Darkness’,” Sonic Innovations, SpokenWeb Institute, Spring 2023
2022
- “Decoded: Exploring the Multimodal and Intercultural Identity,” University of Florida English Department Conference, Individual Paper, Spring 2022
MEDIA COVERAGE
- “Affective Footprints.” Heliotrope Journal. Edited by Mél Hogan, Fall 2024
- “Emerging Scholar Series: Trent Wintermeier, University of Texas at Austin,” Season 11 Episode 169, The Big Rhetorical Podcast, hosted by Charles Woods, Fall 2024
- “Frequencies,” Episode 46, The Data Fix, hosted by Mél Hogan, Fall 2024
- “Mellon Foundation Provides $1.5 Million Grant to Audiovisual Annotation Platform,” The Daily Texan, Spring 2023
- “Rhetoric
After Sound: Stories of Encountering ‘The Hum’ Phenomenon.”Sounding Out! Journal. Edited by Jennifer Lynn Stoever,
Spring 2024
- Book Review, Olfactory Rhetoric: Sniffing Out Environmental Problems, in Rhetoric Society Quarterly Journal. Edited by Nathaniel Rivers, Fall 2025 (in progress)
- Software Review, AVAnnotate, in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Edited by Ashanka Kumari and Jonathan Marine, Fall 2024
- Book Review, Toward an Anti-Capitalist Composition, in H-Net Reviews: Socialisms. Edited by Sean Cashbaugh, Summer 2024
- Book Review, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, inThe E3W Review of Books section “Ecologies of Solidarity: Organizing, Labor, Activism.” Edited by Keerti Arora and Hannah Hopkins, Spring 2023
TEACHING
Courses Taught as Sole Instructor
- E 398D: Digital Studies Practicum (Fall 2025)
- RHE
306: Rhetoric and Writing (Fall 2024-5, Spring 2025)
Courses Taught as Section Leader
- E 316: American Literature (Summer 2023)
- E 316: World Literature (Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
INVITED TALKS
- “UT Live Lens,” for Race, Gender, and Surveillancetaught by Simone Browne, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, UT Austin, Fall 2024
- “Radio Writing in Digital Environments,” for Writing in Digital Environmentstaught by Hannah Hopkins, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, UT Austin, Fall 2024
- “Connection + Reception: Shortwave Listening and DIY Radio Design” (with Hannah Hopkins), for Introduction to Digital Studies taught by Jim Brown, Department of English, Rutgers University at Camden, Spring 2024
- “Radio Recordings: Building Receivers for Local Sonic Engagement,” forSound Space Art Lab, Butler School of Music, UT Austin, Spring 2024
- “Listening Across the Shortwave,” for Digital Writing and Research Lab, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, UT Austin, Fall 2023
- “Creating Digital Exhibits with the Voces Oral History Archive,” forQualitative Interviewingtaught by Maggie Rivas Rodriguez, Department of Journalism and Media, UT Austin, Spring 2023
SERVICE
- Graduate Student Affiliate, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (2025–)
- Digital Experience Coordinator, Graduate Research Network (GRN), Computers and Writing (2025)
- Committee Member, First-Year Forum Selection Committee, UT Austin (2025)
- Committee Member, Graduate Student Search Advisory Committee, UT Austin (2024–25)
- Communications Assistant, Festival Beach Food Forest, Austin, TX (2023–24)
- Co-President, Eunoia Society, UT Austin (2023–)
- Judge, Capital of Texas Undergraduate Research Symposium, UT Austin (2023)
- Team Member, SpokenWeb Consortium, University of Alberta (2022–)
- Trustee, Florida Defenders of the Environment, Gainesville, FL (2019–22)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Participant, “Practicing the Civic Arts in Public,” RSA Institute Seminar (2025)
- Co-Editor, “Borders, Structures, and Disruptions,” E3W Review of Books(2025)
- Participant, “Audio: Past and Future,” Modern Language Association Seminar (2025)
- SIG Participant, “DHTech: Inside Out,” Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (2024)
- Participant, Graduate Research Network at Computers and Writing (2024)
- Co-Editor, “Technology, Infrastructure, and Archives,” E3W Review of Books (2024)
- Editor, How We Write Podcast, UT Austin (2023–2025)
- Digital Scholarship Intern, LLILAS Benson (2023–2024)
- Writing Consultant, University Writing Center, UT Austin (2023)
- Graduate Facilitator, Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, COLA (2023)
- Participant, “Narrative Methods for Material Rhetorics,” RSA Institute Workshop (2023)
- Participant, “Rhetorical Listening in Action,” RSA Institute Seminar (2023)
- Writing Tutor, University of Florida Writing Studio (2021)
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS & GRANTS
- Rapoport Graduate Student Fieldwork Grant on Environmental Justice and Peace, 2025 ($2,500)
- IDH Training Workshop Award (with Casey Boyle and Claire Fitch), 2025 ($3,000)
- Digital Humanities Research Project Development Grant, 2024–25 ($1,000)
- DH Research Working Group Grant (with Jacqueline Rhodes and Sam Turner), 2024–25 ($3,000)
- Modern Language Association Edward Giuliano Global Fellowship, 2024–25 ($2,000)
- UT Austin Professional Development Award, 2024 ($1,000)
- Outstanding TA Contribution to Faculty Resource Commons, 2023 (>$1,000)
- Dean’s Medal for Excellence in Liberal Arts, 2021 (>$1,000)
- Humanities Engagement Scholar Award, 2021 (>$1,000)
- Kitty Oliver Writing Prize, 2021 (>$1,000)
- William G. Carleton Merit Scholarship, 2021 ($1,000)
MEMBERSHIPS
Society for the Study of Affect (SSA); College Composition and Communication (CCC); National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE); Modern Language Association (MLA); Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO); Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH); Rhetoric Society of America (RSA)