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University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, R3T 2N2
Faculty of Arts
Women's and Gender Studies Program
224 Isbister Building
183 Dafoe Road
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M9
Dr. Kang specializes in transnational, multi-ethnic and diaspora women’s literatures. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, her M.A. from Queen’s University, and her B.A. (Hon.) summa cum laude from the University of Calgary, where she received the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta’s Gold Medal and the Governor General of Canada’s Academic Medal. Before coming to the University of Manitoba, she was Associate Professor of Multicultural and Diaspora Literatures at the University of Baltimore where was the primary faculty mentor of the University of Baltimore Women of Color Student Association (WOCSA). Dr. Kang was also Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Syracuse University, where she was affiliated with Native American Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies and the Department of English.
She co-authored The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) with Silvio Torres-Saillant, part of the Latino and Latin American Profiles series. In 2021, the book won Honorable Mention for the Best Book Award from the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW), chosen from among submissions published between 2017-2020. Dr. Kang co-edited The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott (Lexington Books, 2013) with Ashley Barkman and Adam Barkman, and Problematic Paradigms: Latinx Discourses and the Contours of Americanness with Michael Nieto Garcia (U of Texas Press, forthcoming). Her scholarship appears in such refereed journals as American Literature; ESC: English Studies in Canada; Meridians: Race, Feminism, Transnationalism; Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies; Twentieth-Century Literature; LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory; MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States; Canadian Literature; Women's Studies; Latino Studies; AAR: The African American Review; Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters; JLS: Journal of Lesbian Studies; and ECW: Essays on Canadian Writing. She has also contributed articles to such reference volumes as The Oxford Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino/a Literature, Keywords in Latino Studies, Great Lives from History: Asian and Pacific Islander Americans and The African American National Biography. Dr. Kang’s creative writing may be found in AmerAsia Journal; Meridians; The Fiddlehead; WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly; Little Patuxent Review; Canadian Literature; ARIEL; Ricepaper Magazine; Ploughshares; and Stone Canoe. She won the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Baltimore Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences in 2016 and the University of Manitoba Teaching Excellence Award for the Faculty of Arts (Established Faculty category) in 2024. She was chosen to be Muriel Gold Visiting Professor at McGill University’s Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) in 2024 and in 2025, serves as Interim Director of the UM Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture.
Her current research project, co-edited with Dr. Michael Nieto Garcia (Clarkson University), compiles essays on Latinx community, diasporic politics and Dominican literary history. Other projects examine narratives of alternative mothering, shortcomings of feminist communities to accommodate religious and/or spiritual diversity, eco-feminisms and manifestations of sexist, racist and homophobic violence against women of color in North America and beyond.
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