Elayne McGrail is a PhD student in Film and Media Studies with a concentration in French. She received a BS and MS in Applied Languages & Intercultural Studies - French with a minor in Film & Media Studies and a minor in Korean at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, where she completed a master's thesis on the subject of embodied spectatorship and abortion in French cinema. Her primary research focuses on how cinema represents ailing bodies and afflicted minds, but she also has a broader interest in French and Francophone cinema, reception studies, gender and sexuality studies, and animation.