Chiang Wen-yu graduated from National Taiwan University's foreign languages department and earned a doctorate in linguistics at the University of Delaware. Now she teaches at NTU, both in her old department and the graduate program in linguistics. Her research focuses on phonology, structural linguistics and sociolinguistics, but she is also very interested women's studies.
江文瑜畢業於台大外文系，於美國德拉瓦大學取得語言學博士學位，目前任教於台大語言學研究所暨外文系，她的研究專業是音韻學、構詞學和語言社會學，女性研究則是她另一項興趣所在。