Xiangying Huo

Biography

Xiangying Huo, holding a Ph.D. in Language, Culture, and Teaching from York University, is an Assistant Professor in the Teaching Stream. As a writing specialist and English language learning specialist, Dr. Huo has taught English at the university level for over two decades and has taught writing across the curriculum at York University, OCAD, and three campuses of the University of Toronto.

Dr. Huo’s research interests include writing studies, applied linguistics, anti-racism education, ESL/EFL policy and pedagogy, internationalization in higher education, intercultural and cross-cultural teaching and learning, language ideology, and World English. Dr. Huo is the editor-in-chief of Interrogating Race and Racism in Postsecondary Language Classrooms (IGI Global, 2024) and her book Higher Education Internationalization and English Language Instruction: Intersectionality of Race and Language in Canadian Universities (Springer, 2020) was nominated by the International Writing Centres Association (IWCA) for the 2021 IWCA Outstanding Book Award. Dr. Huo was also the recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award with the biggest number of student’ ballots in 2007 and the Dean’s Merit Award at UTSC in 2024.