Colleen Tremonte retired following the fall 2023 semester.
Professor Tremonte’s research and teaching interests included interdisciplinary theory and pedagogy; film, gender, and genre; national cinemas; and, visual cultural studies and displacement. Tremonte received the University Lilly Teaching Fellowship (1997-1998), a MSU Teacher-Scholar Award (1998-1999) and the Mid-Michigan Alumni Club Quality in Undergraduate Teaching Award (2001).
She was a fellow in the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, CASTL (elected 2000). Beginning in 2008, Tremonte served as the Director of the MSU Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Teaching Fellows Program (IIT), a joint initiative between the James Madison College and the MSU Graduate School. She was also member of the MSU team on Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) to Assess Student Learning, a grant from the Council of Graduate Schools that is funded by the Teagle and the Sloane Foundations (2012-2013).
Professor Tremonte published in the areas of interdisciplinary teaching and learning, on film, gender and visual rhetorics, and on improving graduate education.