Sarah Kessler is a media scholar and television critic. Her articles and essays have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Camera Obscura, Film Quarterly, In These Times, Triple Canopy, and elsewhere. Her book-in-progress, Anachronism Effects, examines the politics of voice and ventriloquism in transatlantic popular culture. Since 2018, Kessler has edited the TV section of Public Books. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Southern California, a Philadelphian, and a whale enthusiast.