M.A. in English, SUNY Brockport, 2020

B.A. in Cinema Studies and French, SUNY Oswego, 2016

Research Interests:

Stacey's research primarily focuses on film genre, horror, and ecocritical engagements with race, gender, and food studies. Forthcoming publications include a book chapter examining nostalgia culture and reflexivity in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated and a journal article which explores contemporary grief horror cinema through the affects of sorrow and mourning. Her most recent project considers representations of agriculture and crops in the early twentieth-century American literary imagination and their influence on contemporary ag-horror cinema.

Publications:

• "Once upon a Midsommar...: Nature, Nationalism, and the Swedish Folkloresque." Folk Horror, special issue of Horror Studies, guest eds. Dawn Keetley and Jeffrey A. Tolbert, summer 2023 (accepted).
• “‘We’ve been teenagers forever’: Reference and self-reflexivity in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.” Critical Approaches to Youth Horror, eds. Kyle Brett and Ethan Robles, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022 (forthcoming).
• “Good Grief: Sorrows, Screams, and Silence in the Contemporary Horror Film.” Routledge Horror Film and Media Companion, eds. Andrea Wood and Jamie McDaniel, Routledge (accepted).

Presentations:

• "Symbol of the Stalk: Agricultural Horror and the Midwest in Zak Hilditch's 1922." To be presented at the ASLE 2023 Biennial Conference, Portland, OR, July 2023.
  • Paper jam co-chair with Dr. Carter Soles: "Regionalism and Ecohorror."
• "Evolution of Hexxus: Terror and Embodiment in FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1922)." 54th NeMLA Convention, Niagara Falls, NY, March 2023.
  • Panel co-chair: "If It Looks Like Horror: Mechanics of Fear in Cross-genre Cinema."
• "What's Lost in a Word: Interrogating English Translations of French Culinary Terminology." Panel: "Babel's Alphabets." Living in Languages Colloquium, University at Albany, SUNY, 24 March 2022.
• "'Once upon a Midsommar...': Nature, Nationalism, and the Swedish Folkloresque." Panel: "Hybridity and Fluidity in Fairy Tales and Folklore." 53rd NeMLA Convention, Baltimore, MD, 12 March 2022.
• “On the Periphery: Black Phillip and the Domesticated Animal in Robert Eggers’ The Witch.” Panel: "Animals in Literature and Film" (co-presented with Kayla Adgate). 62nd MMLA Convention, Milwaukee, WI, 5 November 2021.
• “Preserving nature and preservation of whiteness in Ari Aster’s Midsommar.” Panel: "Race & Environment, Speculative Ecomedia." ASLE Biennial Conference, Virtual, July/August 2021.
• “Grief, escapism, and transnational ecotourism in Ari Aster’s Midsommar.” Panel: "Horror Within and Beyond the Nation." 51st NeMLA Convention, Boston, MA, 8 March 2020.
• “‘Trust in God and Keep Your Powder Dry’: Religious Fanaticism in The Witch and Wieland.” Panel: "Intertextuality and Adaptation" (co-presented with Kayla Adgate). SEGue 6th Annual Symposium, Brockport, NY, 22 February 2019.
• “The value of the familiar in nostalgia horror.” Panel: "Creepypastas and Born-Digital Horror." 40th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 2019.

Teaching:

• AI (Davis): UWP1 (Intro to Academic Literacies)
• TA (Davis): AMS/FST 55 (Food in American Culture), FMS 45 (Vampires and Other Horrors), ENL 123 (18th Century British Literature), ENL 122 (Milton), ENL 111 (Medieval Literature)
• TA, English Tutor (SUNY Brockport): Fall 2018 - Spring 2020
• Assistant de langue (TAPIF): Lycée René Descartes, Lyon, FR, Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
• French Tutor (SUNY Oswego): Fall 2015 - Spring 2016
• TA (SUNY Oswego): FRE 102 Introductory French, Spring 2016