Professor Huang Fayou was born in Shanghangxian, Fujian Province in late-1969. He graduated with a baccalaureate degree from the Economics Department of Hangzhou University and subsequently worked in a state-owned enterprise and a joint venture company in Fujian in various capacities -- operator, statistician and secretary to the general manager. In 1993, he enrolled in graduate studies atQufu Normal University, pursuing anMA degree in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature. In 1996, he enrolled in Fudan University for doctoral studies inLiterature under the mentoring and guidance of Mr. Pan Xulan. In 1999, Professor Huang was recruited for a faculty position at the School of Literature of Shandong University. In 2000, and then again in 2002, he was promoted, by exception to the normal process, to Associate Professor, and Professor, respectively.

Professor Huanghas authored and published several academic monographs, including Writing in the Quasi-Individual Era: Studies of Chinese Novels in the 1990s, and The Poetic Character Aflame: On Zhang Chengzhi, as well as a collection of academic notes and essays, Taking a Stroll with the Hakka. He is the chief editor of the online cultural books series:Reading in the Internet Age. He has authored more than 150 academic papers published in major newspapers and periodicals at home and abroad, more than sixty of which have been reprinted, republished, or excerpted byXinhua Digestand The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials. In addition, Professor Huang has also published more than three hundred essays, notes and memoranda, and poems. He has undertaken five research projects, including“The History of the Dissemination and Appreciation of Literature in the New Era”,a Young Scholars Project under the aegis of the “10th Five-Year Plan in the Social Sciences” ofthe Ministry of Education.He was nominated and selected to receive funding by the Ministry of Education's Program for Subsidizing Outstanding Young Scholars, and won the Young University Faculty Award from the HuoYingdong Foundation of the Ministry of Education.Professor Huang has also won the Chinese Federation of Literary and Art Circles’ Literary Review Award, a Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences in Shandong Province, aContemporary Writers Review Award, and a Contending Voices in Literature and Art Award.