Mingyuan Hu is a British historian and publisher.
Hu read Classics, Philosophy and Art History at the University of Glasgow and won the Herkless Prize in 2008.[1] From the same university she received her PhD in Literature. Between 2008 and 2023, Hu held teaching positions at the University of Glasgow and the University of Leeds, and research positions at the Victoria & Albert Museum and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The biographer of Fou Lei and author of two fictions, she also translates French, English, and Chinese literatures. She is the founder of Hermits United, a multilingual literary press in London and Paris.[2]