Thomas Waugh, teacher, writer, programmer, critic and activist, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His publications on documentary film have ranged from the collections Show Us Life: Toward a History and Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary (1984) and I Confess! Constructing the Sexual Self in the Internet Age (2019) to the monograph The Right to Play Oneself: Looking Back on Documentary (2011).