Sarah Kessler is a media scholar and television critic. Her book project, Anachronism Effects, focuses on ventriloquism in transatlantic popular culture. Her writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Camera Obscura, In These Times, Public Books, Triple Canopy, and Women’s Studies Quarterly, among other venues. She teaches in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Kessler completed her PhD in comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine in 2016.