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Biographical note
Nancy Kang is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Feminisms and Gender-Based Violence at the University of Manitoba. 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. Her research has been undertaken, in part, through the support of the Canada Research Chairs Program.
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