Featured Alum

Swarnavel Pillai

• Former Cinema and Comparative Literature CB Fellow
• Now Assistant Professor Assistant at Michigan State University in their Telecommunication Information Studies and Media (TISM) department.
• “I teach both theory and production in the global context; thus, I am able to use my Crossing Borders experience in a productive way.”

Recent Projects

• Summer 2012 directed a Companion to an Untold Story Cinema: Sattagamum Saalaramum
• April 2012 wrote “1970s Tamil Cinema and the Post-Classical Turn,” Eds, Priya Joshi and Rajinder Dudrah in South Asian Popular Culture Volume 10, Number 1.

Recent Courses

• Short Film: Writing and Directing and Seminar in Film and Media Theory