Laura Hyun Yi Kang(born ^{[date missing]} 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