About
Doctoral candidate with the Department of English at Michigan State University ¦ Area of focus: Tamil cinema, world cinema ¦ Teaching courses on literature, film, culture studies, and media ¦ Interested in global cultures and media and studying them through diverse and different methods of pedagogy and scholarship from diverse traditions of storytelling. Education
M.A. English Studies (Integrated), IIT-Madras
Doctoral Candidate, Dept. of English, Michigan State University Projects
My dissertation, tentatively titled Situating Tamil Cinema, interrogates contemporary Tamil cinema’s impetus to reach out for a global audience through its strategies of production and reception in the digital era. The project’s areas of interest include world cinema, digital networks, genre conventions, and stardom. Tangentially, some satellite projects include the study of gender and stardom, politics of fandom, and digital fragments of cinema. Memberships
Society of Cinema and Media Studies
