Karis Haewon Ryu | 류혜원 is a doctoral student and fiction writer based in New Haven, CT. She is currently pursuing her PhD in the Department of Religious Studies with a Graduate Certificate in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. Her academic work explores how co-constitutive formations of religion, race, empire, and popular culture shape imaginaries of relationality. She is working on her first novel with the support of the McCormack Writing Center (formerly the Tin House Workshop) and StoryStudio Chicago.

Karis holds an M.A. in Religion from Yale Divinity School and an A.B. in History and East Asian Studies from Brown University. You can find her co-organizing the Yale Creative Writing Working Group, singing with the Yale Citations, and attending many a film screening, book club, and/or musical theatre masterclass in and beyond New Haven.

interests & methods: american religious history, literary studies, cultural studies, theatre and performance, popular media, fandom and religion, asian american studies, global korea.

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