Minsoo Kang (born 1967) iis a historian specializing in the intellectual and cultural history of Western Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and a fiction writer.

Currently, he is an associate professor of European intellectual history in the Department of History at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Kang is also an expert on the history of automata in science and in fiction.

Due to his father's occupation as a diplomat for South Korea, Kang has lived in Korea, Austria, New Zealand, Iran, Brunei, Germany, United States, and other places for shorter periods. He served in the army of the Republic of Korea and earned his Ph.D. in European History at UCLA. He is an associate professor at the history department of University of Missouri - St. Louis. He is the author of the history book 'Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination' (2011: Harvard University Press) and the short story collection 'Of Tales and Enigmas' (2006: Prime Books), and the translator of the Penguin Classics edition of the Korean novel 'The Story of Hong Gildong' (2016). His short story 'A Fearful Symmetry' was included in the 2007 'Year's Best Fantasy and Horror' collection, and 'The Sacrifice of the Hanged Monkey in the 2018 'The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy.'

Minsoo Kang’s newest novel The Melancholy of Untold History is currently under submission. Please contact the Brattle Agency for more information.