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Graduate Advisor: Ma Vang
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Research Interests:
Pang’s research interests include oral storytelling and folk stories in relation to power dynamics in refugeehood, gender, and language. She’s also fascinated by the ways narrativity permits, denies, creates and/or interacts in spaces of shared memories, (re)interpretation, and creative interjections across mediums. More generally, she is also intrigued with notions of monstrosity and otherness in popular culture.
Bio:
Pang Yang is a Ph.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program with a B.A. in
Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her project seeks to make
sense of the relationship between Hmong folk tales and Hmong-American identity construction
in the context of the post-Secret War diaspora. Outside of academia, Pang also writes under her
pen name ca. She uses this space as an explorative, experimentative, and responsive form of
speaking to, for, and about her experiences and those she inherited through memory, lineage,
religion, culture, and traditions. ca’s work has appeared in Celebrate Hmong 2019 Art & Media
Festival (2019) and hais: a literary journal (2022).
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