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
