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Description: Pooja Rangan - ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN FILM & MEDIA STUDIES / AMHERST COLLEGE / JOHNSON CHAPEL 004 / AMHERST MA 01002
pooja rangan - associate professor of english in film & media st (1)
I research and write about the humanitarian preoccupations of contemporary documentary culture, as they intersect with and open onto questions of voice, listening, accent, carcerality, and disability. I am an Associate Professor of English and Chair of Film & Media Studies at Amherst College.
I am currently completing my second academic book, The Documentary Audit , a book that explores how listening has come to be equated, in documentary discourse and practice, with accountability. Thinking through the many meanings of the word “audit” (an unspoken listening vantage, a mode of administrative oversight, a ritual of verification, an informal mode of attendance), I ask documentaries audit the world, and the values they endorse when they hold themselves and others to account. The three chapters of
I have also been working, over the past few years, on two collaborative projects. The first is an anthology called Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice (available in print and as a free Open Access ebook from UC Press in March 2023), co-edited and with contributions from myself and my co-editors Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sundar and many other scholars and practitioners of media, literature, law, linguistics, politics, and music. Thinking with an Acc
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