Holly Engel graduated from The College of Wooster, summa cum laude, in May 2021 with a B.A. in English and French and Francophone Studies, as well as a minor in music. She spent a semester of her junior year studying in Nantes, France, where she grew to love film studies. During her senior year at Wooster, she devoted most of her time to her Independent Study thesis, "Sinister Cinema: Depictions of Evil in the WWII and Postwar Thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock and Henri-Georges Clouzot," for which she was awarded Honors. She is in her third year of French graduate studies at The Ohio State University.