Karis Haewon Ryu | 류혜원 is a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University, also pursuing the Graduate Certificate in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. A cultural historian of American religion and Asian American literature, she is interested in the relationship between Asian American subject formation and American secularism. She is working on her first novel with the support of the McCormack Writing Center (formerly the Tin House Workshop) and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.

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 and/or attending film screenings, book clubs, and musical theatre masterclasses in and beyond New Haven.

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