Grace Han

Grace Han is a PhD candidate in the Film and Media Studies program in Art History, where she thinks about animation aesthetics. Prior to coming to Stanford, she received the SAS Maureen Furniss Award for Best Student Paper on Animated Media (2019) for an essay on anime melodrama. She has been consulted for thoughts on Asian American cinema for BBC, and has written for Association for Chinese Animation Studies, Fantasy/Animation, Hyperallergic, Asian Movie Pulse, and more. She has some writing pending for The Encyclopedia for Animation Studies (Bloomsbury Academic), and her current project thinks about encounters with the generative archive. 

Beyond academia, she is the Film/TV Reviews Editor for Fantasy/Animation and writes about movies as a Tomatometer-approved critic. She also serves as the graduate representative for the SCMS Animated Media SIG and co-coordinates the Digital Aesthetics Workshop at the Stanford Humanities Center. She likes to read comics and garden (that is, touch grass) in her free time.