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Jewon Woo

Jewon Woo

#DigBlk NHRPC Satellite Partner
Professor of English, Lorain County Community College
Biography:

Jewon Woo is a Professor of English at Lorain County Community College, Ohio. She serves as an NHPRC Satellite Partner in 2024-2025 and was a JT Mellon Satellite Partner at the Center for Black Digital Research (CBDR) in 2023-24. Her work with CBDR focuses on the Colored Conventions Movement in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Kansas in collaboration with the CCP team. Her research areas include topics about Black Print Culture, Black periodicals, performance, 19th-century American culture and literature, critical race theory, community-based pedagogy and pedagogy for under-represented students, and digital humanities.