Laura Hyun Yi Kang(born 1967) is a Korean-American scholar and writer.

Kang is a professor of gender and sexuality studies in the School of Humanities at University of California, Irvine.[1] Kang holds a B.A. in ethnic studies and English from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. from UC Santa Cruz.

Selected works

  • Traffic in Asian Women, Duke University Press, 2020[2]
  • Writing Self, Writing Nation: A Collection of Essays on Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Third Women Press, 1994 (co-author)
  • Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women, Duke University Press, 2002[3]
  • Echoes upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings, Temple Univ Press, 2003 (co-author)[4]
  • Conjuring "Comfort Women": Mediated Affiliations and Disciplined Subjects in Korean/American Transnationality, Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 6, Number 1, February 2003, pp. 25–55 [5]

Awards

  • Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Cultural Studies 2003
  • UCI Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research 1998

References

  1. ↑ Hyun Yi Kang-faculty profile-University of California, Irvine
  2. ↑ "Traffic in Asian Women".
  3. ↑ Book review: Compositional Subjects
  4. ↑ Book review: Echos upon Echos
  5. ↑ Journal of Asian American Studies
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