Her monograph Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry (Stanford University Press, 2013) won the Association for Asian American Studies' 2016 award for best book of literary criticism and honorable mention in the Poetry Foundation's inaugural Pegasus Awards for Poetry Criticism. The only annual conference on race and creative writing is named after the book and has been held since 2014. Wang gave the Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at Naropa University in 2015. That same year, she conceived and co-founded the "Race and Poetry and Poetics in the UK" (RAPAPUK) research initiative, which held its first conference in London in 2016. During academic year 2017-2018, Wang will be in residence at the CUNY-Graduate Center on an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship.