Grace Han is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History (Film and Media Studies track) at Stanford University, where she thinks about digital animation aesthetics under the supervision of Shane Denson. Her dissertation, “Encounters with the Generative Archive,” proposes an aesthetic theory of the “generative archive” to define how predictive and postcinematic media (so, CGI and AI) change the way we memorialize the past. She also co-coordinates Digital Aesthetics: A Stanford Humanities Research Workshop, is a Tomatometer-approved film critic, and serves as the Secretary for GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

Prior to her studies at Stanford, Grace completed her BA with Honors at UNC-Chapel Hill (2018) and a MA with Distinction at The Courtauld Institute of Art (2020), and received the Society for Animation Studies’ Maureen Furniss Award for Best Student Paper on Animated Media (2019). She is also a fond alumnus of the Sundance Press Inclusion Initiative (2024, 2022), Toronto Media Inclusion Initiative (2024, 2022), Telluride Student Symposium (2021), GoCritic! at Animafest Zagreb (2019), and Campus Movie Fest at Cannes (2019).

Beyond academia, she is also an active film critic and film programmer. She is a regular contributor to the Korean Film Council’s KO-Pick News column, Programming Director of Taste of Pomegranate, Screenshot Asia’s Middle Eastern shorts showcase, and is on the Features Programming team for New York Asian American International Film Festival, among others. In her coverage, she prefers to cover emerging Asian diaspora, queer, and animation talent.

If you have any press requests, academic inquiries, or would like to talk about animation in general, feel free to reach her through her email (ghahahan@stanford.edu). CV is also available upon request.