Yibing Huang

Yibing Huang is Professor of Chinese at Connecticut College since 2000 and Curator of the Chu-Griffis Asian Art Collection, where he significantly shapes academic and cultural programming through interdisciplinary initiatives bridging Chinese and American scholarship.

His educational background includes dual doctorates: a Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Beijing University (with concurrent B.A. and M.A.) followed by a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA (2001), establishing his foundation in cross-cultural literary analysis.

Research spans critical domains including:

• Modern & Contemporary Chinese Literary Movements
• Chinese Art History and Contemporary Practices
• Transnational Modernism/Postmodernism Frameworks
• Chinese American Cultural Production
• Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Global Contexts
• Intercultural Poetic Translation Methodologies

Huang's scholarly recognition includes major fellowships from the Committee on Scholarly Communication with China, Social Science Research Council, and American Council of Learned Societies, alongside literary honors such as the Phi Beta Kappa Poet award (2006), China's Rou Gang Poetry Prize (2012), and Pushcart Prize nomination (2016).

As curator, he has directed landmark exhibitions including "Cui Fei: Counter-Monument", "Zhang Hongtu: Van Gogh/Bodhidharma", "Wang Chi-yuan and His Generation", and "Chinese Landscape Rethought" (2019), while organizing the "Contemporary Chinese Documentary Film Week" (2017-2018) to foster cross-cultural dialogue through visual media.

Writing as poet Mai Mang, he has published two acclaimed collections—Stone Turtle: Poems 1987-2000 (2005) and Approaching Blindness (2005)—with works featured in major anthologies since the 1980s, demonstrating his dual commitment to creative practice and academic scholarship.