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 The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, ...

, Irvine. Kang holds a B.A. in ethnic studies and English from UC Berkeley and a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...

from UC Santa Cruz.

Selected works

* ''Traffic in Asian Women'', Duke University Press, 2020 *''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 * ''Echoes upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings'', Temple Univ Press, 2003 (co-author) * ''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 Journal of Asian American Studies
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Awards

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

References

Living people 1967 births American writers of Korean descent University of California, Santa Cruz alumni University of California, Irvine faculty {{AsianAmerican-stub