Her research focuses on East Asian and comparative philosophy, with particular emphasis on Confucian philosophy, feminist philosophy, and the intellectual history of women, gender, and ritual in Korea and China. She is especially interested in how normative structures shape women's agency in Confucian traditions. Her teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include Confucianism and feminism, Chinese history and philosophy, and cross-cultural philosophy.

She is a co-editor and co-translator of Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage: The Essential Writings of Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Readings in Korean Confucian Philosophy (Hackett Publishing, forthcoming 2026). Her newest article, "Gwon Geun's Defence of Zhu Xi's Supplementary Chapter: Methodology of Early Joseon Korean Neo-Confucianism," appeared online in Asian Philosophy in 2025. Her book chapters on Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang appear in Women Philosophers from Non-Western Traditions: The First Four Thousand Years (Springer, 2024).

Wang has a B.A. in Confucian Philosophy and an M.A. in Confucian Studies from Sungkyunkwan University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Binghamton University (State University of New York). Before joining Duke Kunshan University, she held postdoctoral fellowships at Georgetown University (2020–2022) and Emory University (2022–2023).