Grace Han

Grace Han is a doctoral candidate in Art History, on the Film and Media Studies track. Her research centers the phenomenological in animation. 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. Now, her dissertation, "Encounters with the Generative Archive," teases apart CGI aesthetics in relation to memory and time.

Through the Digital Aesthetics Workshop, she hopes to provide an interdisciplinary hub for those interested in media studies within Stanford and the SF Bay Area at large. In addition to her studies, she likes to read comics and garden (that is, touch grass) in her free time.