COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES PROGRAM

Kang Kang (Connie) is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literary Studies with a home department in Asian Languages and Cultures and a Mellon Fellowship in the Comparative Race and Diaspora cluster. Her research interests include post-revolutionary and post-socialist affect, documentary/ethnography and fabulation, performance and popular media, translation, and the material and imagined structures of racial/ethnic solidarity and antagonism. Inspired by Afro-pessimist thinkers and practitioners, she hopes to work on “Sino-pessimism” as a critical idiom to destitute the “Chineseness” in historical experiences of Chinese modernity.  

Connie received a BA in Comparative Literature and Society from Columbia University in 2015. She is an editor of the Guangdong Times Museum’s journal South of the South and has written for Artforum China, ArtReview Asia, The Brooklyn Rail, LEAP, and other publications. Her work as an artist, critic, and translator can be viewed here.