Ilyon Woo

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Ilyon Woo holds a B.A. in the Humanities from Yale College and a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University, where she wrote her dissertation on nineteenth century anti-Shaker and Shaker apostate narratives. She has had support for her writing and research from numerous public and private funding sources, including the Peterson Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society; the Larry Hackman Research Residency at the New York State Archives; the Faith Andrews Fellowship at the Winterthur Museum and Library; the Elder Henry Blinn Research Fellowship at the University of New Hampshire (Durham) and the Canterbury Shaker Village; and the Younger Scholars Grant at the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has spoken publicly on Eunice Chapman’s anti-Shaker literature at museums and conferences. She lives with her family in Manhattan.