Minying Huang

Minying Huang is a Lecturer in Arabic Language and Literature at St John's College, University of Oxford. She holds a BA in Spanish and Arabic from St John's College, Oxford, an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto (as a Massey College Junior Fellow), and a DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages from Oxford, funded by the Wolfson Foundation. Her research focuses on 20th-century Latin American Arab poetry, challenging Western-centric narratives about its 'conservatism' and emphasizing poetical agency and tradition as a dynamic process.

She teaches courses on Arabic, Latin American, and Comparative Literatures across the University. Recent roles include College Lecturer in Arabic Literature (2023–2024), tutor for Spanish literature and film, and graduate teaching assistantships. She has presented at international conferences, including the Northeast Modern Language Association and American Comparative Literature Association.

• Awards: Wolfson Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship
• Research Themes: South-South migration, literary indigenismo, translingual texts

Her work critiques paternalistic frameworks in Global South literature and explores how marginalized writers reconfigure tradition. She supervises undergraduate dissertations and lectures on migration narratives, avant-garde aesthetics, and close-reading methodologies.