Johanna Isaacson is Professor of English at Modesto Junior College, USA. She is well-known as a feminist horror scholar, bridging academic and popular analysis. Her published books include What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (2025), Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror (2022), and The Ballerina and the Bull (2016). Additionally, she has published several academic and popular articles on politics and horror. She is the founding editor of Blind Field Journal, a journal of culture and politics. She is frequently invited to give talks on horror and feminism, including for Red May and as the keynote speaker for both SJSU’s Feminist Horror Symposium and for University of British Columbia’s Feminist Horror Festival.