Professor Huang Wanhua, a native of Shangyuxian, Zhejiang Province, is currently a Tier-2 Professor at Shandong University, and a Dissertation Advisor for Ph.D students in  the School of Literature. He is in charge of the development of a key academic discipline in Shandong province and the head of the teaching team for that academic discipline in Shandong province. Professor Huang is primarily engaged in teaching modern and contemporary Chinese literature and Chinese literatureoverseas. He has logged almost nearly 7,000 class hoursin Undergraduate teaching, was named Master Teacher at Shandong University in the first year that the program of naming professors at Shandong University by that honorific was launched, and was acclaimed by students at Shandong University as “A Good Advisor in My Opinion.”He is a recipient of special subsidies from the State Council, and has won prizes and awards as Outstanding Teacher of Fujian Province, Master Teacher of Shandong Province, and Outstanding Teacher of Baogang. As Supervisor and Principal InvestigatorProfessor Huang has won a Level-2 National Prize for Achievement in Teaching, a National Excellent Academic Course Award, Level-1 and Level-2 Prizes for Excellence in Teaching Achievement in Shandong Province, and a Level-1 Prize for Excellence in Textbooks and Teaching Materials in Shandong Province. In addition to teaching, Professor Huang has supervised four key and/or general research Projects sponsored by the National Foundation for the Social Sciences as well as eight research projects sponsored by provincial departments of Education. Furthermore, he has authored and published more than 300 papers in academic journals at home and abroad, of which nearly 200 were published in more than 70 core scholarly journals in China and in 46 CSSCI publications. More than sixty articles authored by Professor Huang have been reprinted by Xinhua Digest, Chinese Social Science Digest,and the Digest of Scholarly Papers in the Humanities from Chinese Universities and Colleges.

Professor Huang has authored and published writings totaling more than seven million words, including thirteen academic monographs, which include:

A History of Literature in the Occupied Areas of China during the War of Resistance Against Japan;

China and Overseas: A Study of the History of Literature in the Chinese Language in the Twentieth Century;

A History of Novels Written in the Chinese Language in Singapore and Malaysia Over the Last Century;

Studies of Chinese Literature in Wartime;

Studies of Chinese Literature in the Twenty Years After the War;

Chinese Language Literature in the World in the Context of Cultural Transformation; Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature (From May Fourth to the 1960s)

He has also edited ten other studies, including A Study of Chinese Language Literature in the United States of America. For his publications and scholarly writings, Professor Huang has won two Level-1 Prizes, two Level-2 Prizes and two Level-3 Prizes for Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences in Shandong Province, three Liu Xie Prizes for Literary Criticism, an Inaugural Qilu Literature Award and an InauguralTaishan Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Literature and Art.

In addition to his academic position at Shandong University, Professor Huang also serves as Vice President of the Chinese Association for the Study of Worldwide Literature in the Chinese Language, and a director of the Chinese Association for the Study of Modern Literature. He also serves as an external reader and examiner for graduate degree theses and dissertations for a number of universities in various countries such as the USA and Malaysia, and in Hong Kong, as a consultant for academic journals in these countries and regions, as well as a member of editorial committees and boards for a large number of scholarly periodicals and publications in China.