Wen-chin Ouyang

was born in Taiwan, brought up in Libya and studied in the United States, gaining a PhD in Arabic Literature from Columbia University. She is currently Reader in Arabic Literature in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Near and Middle East at the School of African and Asian Studies, London and teaches across a range of courses, including classical, modern and popular Arabic literature.

She is the author of Literary Criticism in Medieval Islamic Culture: The Making of a Tradition (Edinburgh University Press, 1997), and contributed to many other volumes, including Companion to Magical Realism (Tamesis 2005), and New Perspectives on the Arabian Nights: Ideological Variations and Narrative Horizons (Routledge 2005). She is co-editor of The Novelization of Islamic Literatures – Omri, Mohamed-Saleh and Ouyang, Wen-Chin. (2007). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Comparative Critical Studies)

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