Stacey Anh Baran

Stacey Anh Baran is a Literature PhD candidate at the University of California, Davis and the graduate fellow for the 2024-2025 Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Thinking Food at the Intersections . Her research primarily focuses on film, horror, and food/agricultural studies. Stacey’s dissertation explores how the iconography of maize in American horror cinema reveals historical anxieties around regionality, race, and consumption in the national consciousness. 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).