East Lansing, MI 48825-1205
Ph.D., Texas Christian University; English
Associate Professor
Professor Tremonte's areas of expertise include cultural rhetoric, film and history, and, interdisciplinary theory and pedagogy. She was awarded a University Lilly Teaching Fellowship in 1997-1998, an MSU Teacher-Scholar Award in 1998-1999, and the Mid-Michigan Alumni Club Quality in Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2001. In 2000 she was named a Pew Fellow in the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Professor Tremonte has published several articles on pedagogy, including "Film, Classical Rhetoric, and Visual Literacy," and "At the Interstices: Postcolonial Literary Studies Meets International Relations,” with Linda Racioppi. Her current research interests include SOTL and graduate education, cinematic madness, and film, gender and international politics.
Professor Tremonte will present a paper, “Ariadne's Thread: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and SOTL,” at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in October.
Tremonte will also present a paper, “Blurring the Boundaries: Cinematic Madness and the Medical Case Study,” at the Conference on the Study of Film and History in Chicago, in October.
In fall 2008-2009, Tremonte will be directing a new initiative in SOTL and graduate education: the Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Teaching Fellowship Program (IIT). This three-year initiative is a partnership between the Michigan State University Graduate School and James Madison Residential College of Public, Michigan State University.
Colleen Tremonte will present a paper, "Towards a Theory of Historical Filmic Literacy," at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference in Washington, D.C. in November.
In collaboration with Steven Purchase (IR/PTCD '06), and Karissa Chabot (senior IR/PTCD), Colleen Tremonte will be presenting a panel, "Local Knowledge Redux," at the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing in Ann Arbor in November.
Linda Racioppi and Colleen Tremonte presented a paper, "International Relations Meets English Studies: Collaborative Learning in the International Relations Classroom," at the American Political Science Association Annual Teaching and Learning Conference in Washington, D.C., February 18-21.
