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Laura Hyun Yi Kang

Chair and Associate Professor of Women's Studies
School of Humanities

Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
School of Humanities

Associate Professor, English
School of Humanities

Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz

Phone: (949) 824-7141
Fax: (949) 824-3885
Email: hykang@uci.edu

University of California
1320 Bio Sci 3
Mail Code: 2655
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests
Feminist and Gender Studies; Feminist Epistemologies and Theories; Cultural Studies; Ethnic Studies; Visual Cultures
   
Academic
Distinctions
Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Cultural Studies 2003

UCI Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research 1998
   
Appointments University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley 1995-1996
   
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
   
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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Last updated 10/07/2008