Sarah Rebecca Kessler

Sarah Rebecca Kessler is a media scholar, television critic, and assistant professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her articles and essays have been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Camera Obscura, Film Quarterly, Triple Canopy, and elsewhere. She is currently working on three books: an academic monograph on vocal politics at the turn of the twenty-first century, a popular account of tv binge-watching, and a scholarly volume on the whale’s evolution as a cultural medium since the early 1970s. She edits the tv section of Public Books and enjoys reading fiction in her spare time.