About

Michelle N. Huang is Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University.

She received her Ph.D. in English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the Pennsylvania State University in 2017. She also holds a M.A. in English (Penn State) and B.A.s in English and Economics (NYU).

Her research interests include Asian American literatures, posthumanism, and feminist science studies. 

Michelle’s first book, Racial Beings: Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms, was published in March 2026 as part of the ANIMA series at Duke University Press. Her articles have appeared in American Literature, Journal of Asian American Studies, Amerasia, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, and Journal of Medical Humanities. Other writing can be found in American Quarterly, Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, and Post45: Contemporaries, among other venues.