Wen-chin Ouyang, FBA (歐陽文津) is a professor of Arabic literature and comparative literature at SOAS, University of London.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Ouyang was born in Taiwan and raised in Libya.^[8][9] She earned her bachelor's degree in the Arabic language from the University of Tripoli and completed her PhD in Middle Eastern studies at Columbia University in the United States.^[8][9] She taught Arabic studies at Columbia, the University of Chicago, and the University of Virginia before moving to the United Kingdom. Ouyang speaks both Arabic and Mandarin Chinese as a native speaker.^[8]

Most of Ouyang's written work focuses on early to middle Arabic literary criticism. She is the editor or co-editor of several academic journals within the field of Middle Eastern studies. She is also a regular contributor to Banipal.^[8] During the early 2000s, Ouyang was one of the organizers for a workshop series based on the "Genre, narrative and ideology" research program at SOAS.^[10]

In 2013, Ouyang was selected as a judge for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

In July 2018, Ouyang was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[11] She was the first Taiwan-born academic to receive the honour.^[12]

In 2022 she was elected to the Academia Sinica.^[13]