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WHAT I’M WORKING ON NOW
Why Look At Prisons: An Abolitionist Vision for Documentary (book with Brett Story, forthcoming from Duke University Press)
“Reimagining Access: Crip Media Aesthetics and Infrastructures” (special issue of Cinéma and Cie, no. 46, coedited with Domenico Napolitano and Annalisa Pellino; publication scheduled for late 2026)
BOOKS
The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability (Columbia University Press, 2025)
Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary (Duke University Press, 2017) (2019 Harry Levin Prize for Outstanding First Book from ACLA; Finalist for 2018 ASAP Book Prize; PDF links to Introduction)
EDITED COLLECTIONS
Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice, edited by Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sundar (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023; available in print and as a free open access e-book)
Dossier on “Documentary (Adj.),” Millennium Film Journal 74 (Fall 2021), co-organized with Paige Sarlin and Toby Lee
Special Issue on “Documentary Audibilities,” Discourse 39.3 (Fall 2017), co-edited with Genevieve Yue
LONGER
Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan and Pavitra Sundar, “Introduction: Thinking with an Accent,” in Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice, edited by Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sundar, 1-22 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023)
“From ‘Handicap’ to Crip Curb Cut: Thinking Accent with Disability,” in Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice, edited by Pooja Rangan, Akshya Saxena, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Pavitra Sundar, 54-72 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023)
“Listening in Crip Time: Toward a Countertheory of Documentary Access,” Dossier on New Disability Media edited by Faye Ginsburg, B. Ruby Rich, and Lawrence Carter-Long, Film Quarterly 76, no. 2 (Winter 2022).
“Documentary Listening Habits: From Voice to Audibility,” The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, edited by Kyle Stevens (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022)
“Four Propositions on True Crime and Abolition,” co-authored with Brett Story, World Records (2021); Accessible PDF of “Four Propositions on True Crime and Abolition”
“Inaudible Evidence: Counterforensic Listening in Contemporary Documentary Art,” in Deep Mediations, edited by Karen Redrobe and Jeff Scheible (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
“The Skin of the Voice: Acousmatic Illusions, Ventriloquial Listening,” in Sound Objects, edited by Rey Chow and James Steintrager (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018), 130-148.
“Auditing the Call Center Voice: Accented Speech and Listening in Sonali Gulati’s Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night (2005),” in Vocal Projections: Voices in Documentary, edited by Annabelle Honess Roe and Maria Pramaggiore (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), 29-44.
“Audibilities: Voice and Listening in the Penumbra of Documentary – An Introduction,” Discourse 39.3 (Fall 2017, Special Issue on Documentary Audibilities): 279-291.
“In Defense of Voicelessness: The Matter of the Voice and the Films of Leslie Thornton,” Feminist Media Histories 1, no. 3 (Summer 2015): 95-126.
“For a Critique of the Documentary Logic of Sobriety,” World Picture 9, Special issue on Seriousness (July 2014)
“Humane-itarian Interventions,” differences 24.1 (2013): 104-136.
“Race, Racism, and Postcoloniality,” co-authored with Rey Chow, in The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies, ed. Graham Huggan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
“Immaterial Child Labor: Media Advocacy, Autoethnography, and the Case of Born into Brothels,” Camera Obscura 25, no. 3 75 (December 2011): 142-177.
Some Annotations on the Film Festival as an Emerging Medium in India,” South Asian Popular Culture, Special issue on Intermedia Emergence 8.2 (2010): 123-141.
“Transitions, Transactions: Bollywood as a Signifying Practice,” in The Sarai Reader 2007: Frontiers (New Delhi: Center for the Study of Developing Societies, 2007), 273-285.
SHORTER
“Listening Like a Documentary,” in No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, 81-87 (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2022).
“Documentary Audit,” in Dossier on “Documentary (Adj.),” Millennium Film Journal 74 (Fall 2021)
“Jessica Krug’s ‘Drifting‘ Accent,” In Media Res (October 27, 2020)
“Society for Sick Societies: Hold Your Breath,” Social Text Online (September 20, 2020)
“In Praise of the Poor Voice,” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 59, no. 4, In-Focus: Revoicing the Screen (2020): 167-172.
“Bad Habits, or, Can Reflexivity Be Good Again?” Forum on Immediations, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 7, no. 2 (April 2020): 225-229. (PDF includes contributions to the forum by Rey Chow, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Lucas Hilderbrand, and Naomi Waltham-Smith).
“The Elephant’s Self-Portrait: Reflections on Humane-itarianism,” Shoppinghour Magazine 09: Authentic Human (2012): 58-61.
WHITE PAPER
Pooja Rangan and Rebecca Richman Cohen, “Documentary at Risk: Strategies for Ethics, Sustainability and Innovation in a Time of Disruption,” Report of the Documentary Film in the Public Interest Initiative (Harvard University, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, September 2025), 10-25.
INTERVIEWS, CONVERSATIONS
The Al-Haq Forensic Architecture Investigative Unit and Rachel Nelson (Visualizing Abolition) in conversation with Laliv Melamed and Pooja Rangan, “‘They Are Shooting at Our Shadows,’” in World Records vol. 9: Just Evidence, edited by Sasha Crawford-Holland, Patrick E. Smith, and LaCharles Ward.
Neta Alexander, Pooja Rangan, Tanya Titchkosky, and Emma Ben Ayoun, “Theorizing a Future for Disability Media Studies: A Virtual Roundtable,” Special Issue on Cinema Beyond Isolation: Disability and Media Theory, edited by Emma Ben Aroun, Spectator 43, no. 2 (Fall 2023): 48-56.
Courtney Stephens, Shilyh Warren, and Pooja Rangan, “To Describe the World: A Conversation With Courtney Stephens About ‘Terra Femme’,” Another Gaze (July 19, 2021)
Aniruddha Maitra, Pooja Rangan, and Aparna Sharma, “Documenting and Inhabiting Flux: A Conversation with Filmmaker Priya Sen,” World Records (2019)
Pooja Rangan, Brett Story and Paige Sarlin, “In Practice: Humanitarian Ethics and Documentary Politics,” Camera Obscura 33, no. 2 98 (2018): 196-207.
“How Do We Look? An Interview with Fatimah Tobing Rony,” Film Quarterly 67, no. 2 (Winter 2013): 62-68