Christopher Kang
Flo Kurtz Gault Endowed Chair of English; Department Co-Chair of English
Phone: 330-263-2028
Office: Kauke 216
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About
Christopher Kang (B.A. Cornell University; M.F.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.F.A. Iowa Writers Workshop; M.A. and Ph.D. University of California, Irvine) writes fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and critical work. He recently earned his Ph.D. in English, completing a dissertation entitled Zero Ecology: A Study of British Romantic Poetry.
His first book of stories, When He Sprang From His Bed, Staggered Backward, and Fell Dead, We Clung Together with Faint Hearts, and Mutely Questioned Each Other, was selected by Sarah Manguso for the 2016 GMR Book Prize. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in LitHub, Epiphany, jubilat, Massachusetts Review, Gulf Coast, Verse Daily, Cimarron Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Open City, and elsewhere.
Degrees
- B.A., English Cornell University
- M.F.A., Creative Writing / Fiction揢niversity of Wisconsin, Madison
- M.F.A., Creative Writing / Poetry揑owa Writers Workshop, University of Iowa
- M.A., English揢niversity of California, Irvine
- Ph.D., English揢niversity of California, Irvine
- Creative Writing Fiction / Poetry / Creative Nonfiction
- Genre Hybridity
- British Romanticism
- Ecocriticism
- Image-Text Studies
- Literary Theory
- Cultural Studies
- ENGL 161, Introduction to Fiction & Poetry Writing
- ENGL 261, Advanced Writing in the Book Form
- ENGL 261, Advanced Writing in Experimental Forms
- ENGL 299, Literary Theory & Research Methods
- ENGL 240, Is a Picture Worth 1000 Words: Introduction to Image-Text Studies
- FYS 101, Self-Portrait of a First-Year
- FYS 101, The Politics of the Avengers
Book
- When He Sprang From His Bed, Staggered Backward, And Fell Dead, We Clung Together With Faint Hearts, And Mutely Questioned Each Other, Green Mountains Review Books, Johnson State College, 2017
Fiction
- 凄耻谤茅别, Post Road, Boston College, Issue 39, 2022.
- 凄耻谤茅别, Post Road, Boston College, 淲eb Exclusives, 2021
- 淥ne Ton Prop, Lit Hub, 2018
- 淥ne Ton Prop, Epiphany Magazine, 2018
- 淛辞颈苍, Faultline, University of California, Irvine, 2017
- 淭he Looms, The L Magazine, 2007
Poetry
- Four Poems from Everything Changed Everything Changed, Faultline, University of California, Irvine, 2018
- 淎 Second Hand, Faultline, University of California, Irvine, 2017
- 淵ou Are No Longer Twice, Faultline, University of California, Irvine, 2017
- 淭he Cy Twombly Poem, Open City, 2008-2009
- 淭he Anarchist Thinks of Winter, Open City, 2008-2009
- 淢y Love is Like Oh, Massachusetts Review, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009
- 淵our Way of Thinking, jubilat, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2008
- 淵our Way of Thinking, Verse Daily, 2008
- 淲hat Would Pass in All Those Years, Cimarron Review, Oklahoma State University, 2007
- 淚f This Was Walking Far, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Columbia University, 2007
- 淎 Novel is the Form of Sleep, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Columbia University, 2007
- 淭he Night We Called It a Day, Gulf Coast, University of Houston, 2007
- 淚 Have a Thing to Say About Happiness, Gulf Coast, University of Houston, 2007
- 淣ote to Reader, Gulf Coast, University of Houston, 2007
Creative Nonfiction
- 淩esearch Notes, Necessary Fiction, 2017