Myungin Sohn

Myungin Sohn earned her M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University in 2020. She is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford's Department of Comparative Literature. Her research focuses on the philosophy of language in the medieval Arabic tradition, especially on the relationship between meaning (maʿnā) and utterance (lafẓ) in the context of the  Arabic grammatical tradition. Her M.A. thesis, “God Taught Adam all the Names,” looks at accounts of the origin of language and the correctness of names in Qur’anic exegesis (tafsīr). Her dissertation conducts a theo-philosophical reading of the tenth-century linguist-philosopher Ibn Jinni’s Khaṣāʿiṣ. As a recipient of the Yale MacMillan Center Academic Year Fellowship for Language Study, she studied at the Qasid Institute in Amman, Jordan.