Laura Hyun Yi KangChair and Associate Professor of Women's Studies Associate Professor, Comparative Literature Associate Professor, English |
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Research Interests |
Feminist and Gender Studies; Feminist Epistemologies and Theories; Cultural Studies; Ethnic Studies; Visual Cultures | |
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Academic Distinctions |
Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Cultural Studies 2003 UCI Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research 1998 |
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| Appointments | University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley 1995-1996 | |
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Research Abstract |
Laura Hyun Yi Kang has been at UCI since 1995 when she received her PhD in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests include the politics of knowledge production, feminist epistemologies, critical race studies, and cultural studies. She is currently completing a book on the shifting manufacture of “Asian women” across the transnational circuits of visual culture and political activism, adjudication and governance. Courses Frequently Taught: Undergraduate courses: Gender and Popular Culture Feminist Theory Producing Feminist Knowledge Image Problems: Stereotypes & Representations Graduate courses: Feminist Knowledge and Social Change Problems in Feminist Research Affiliations at UCI: Asian American Studies Comparative Literature English American Studies Global Cultures Humanities and Arts |
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| Publications | Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women (Duke University Press, 2002) | |
| Echoes upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings (Temple Univ Press; (March 2003) | ||
| "Feminist Studies of Asian American Literary/Cultural Studies," in Feminist Studies, v33, n3 (Fall 2007) | ||
| "Case Studies," in Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, n3 (2006). | ||
| "Epistemologies," in A Gender Companion, eds. Philomena Essed, David Goldberg, and Audrey Kobayashi (London: Basil Blackwell, 2005): 73-86. | ||
| "Conjuring ‘Comfort Women’: Mediated Affiliations and Disciplined Subjects in Korean/American Transnationality." Journal of Asian American Studies (February 2003): 25-55. | ||
| "The Desiring of Asian Female Bodies: Interracial Romance and Cinematic Subjection," in Screening Asian Americans, ed. Peter X. Feng (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2002): 71-100. | ||
| "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE." In Resource Guide to Asian American Literature, eds. Stephen H. Sumida and Sau-ling C. Wong. (New York: Modern Languages Association, 2001): 32-44. | ||
| "Si(gh)ting Asian/American Women as Transnational Labor." Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 5.2 (Fall 1997): 403-437. | ||
| Graduate Programs |
Culture and Theory |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4867 | |
| Last updated | 10/07/2008 | |