Pooja Rangan Read Bio Collapse
Pooja Rangan is a scholar of documentary media based at Amherst College, where she is Associate Professor of English and Chair of Film and Media Studies. Rangan is the author of the award-winning book Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (Duke University Press, 2017), and coeditor of the anthology Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (University of California Press, 2023, now available in print and as a free open access ebook), as well as numerous journal articles and essays (available on poojarangan.com). Her new book-in-progress, The Documentary Audit, explores how listening has come to be equated, in documentary discourse, with accountability.