Biography
MA in English, SUNY Brockport, 2020
BA in Cinema Studies and French, SUNY Oswego, 2016
Stacey Anh Baran is a Literature PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on the intersections of film history, genre studies, food studies, and race. Stacey's dissertation project explores the narrative and aesthetic patterns that emerge in cinematic depictions of the cornfield across popular American film genres. She has been published in Horror Studies, Quarterly Review of Film & Video, and an edited collection titled Youth Horror Television and the Question of Fear (2024).
With Dr. Matthew Vernon, Stacey co-hosts Fear of the Dark, a film podcast on race and horror. She is also the editor of the food podcast Esculent. For the 2024-2025 academic year, Stacey was the graduate fellow in the Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Thinking Food at the Intersections: a year-long food studies research initiative.
Publications
- "Car Troubles: The Autophilia of Titane." Body Horror, eds. Elizabeth Erwin, Lauren Gilmore, and Dawn Keetley. Special Issue, Horror Homeroom 9 (February 2025): 98-107.
- "Once upon a Midsommar...: Nature, Nationalism, and the Swedish Folkloresque." Folk Horror, guest eds. Dawn Keetley and Jeffrey A. Tolbert. Special Issue, Horror Studies 14 (October 2023): 205-217.
- “Good Grief: Sorrows, Screams, and Silence in the Contemporary Horror Film.” Quarterly Review of Film & Video (22 June 2023): 1-19.
- “‘We’ve been teenagers forever’: Reference and Self-Reflexivity in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.” In Youth Television and the Question of Fear, eds. Kyle Brett and Ethan Robles. Lehigh University Press, 2024.
Teaching
- Associate Instructor: AMS/FST 55 Food in American Culture; ENL 3 Intro to Literature; UWP 1 Intro to Academic Literacies
- Assistant de langue (TAPIF): Lycée René Descartes, Lyon, FR, Fall 2017 - Spring 2018