Associate Professor Shi Jianguo, a native of Linyi, Shandong Province, was born in 1981. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Literature of Shandong University, and is a Thesis Advisor for MA students. He graduated from Nanjing University in 2009 with a Ph.D in Literature. From October 2007 to October 2008, while he was pursuing his doctoral studies, he was selected for the “National Planning Program of Sending Out Chinese Graduate Students To Study at Superior Standard World Universities on Public Funding,” and studied in the Department of East Asian Studies at Ruhr University-Bochum in Germany for one year. Since 2009, he has been on the faculty of the School of Literature of Shandong University, and is engaged in teaching and research in the field of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature. At present, Professor Shi’s primary research interests are concentrated in the study of historical materials related to modern and contemporary Chinese literature, the study of biographical literature, the literary life of contemporary society, and the study of the history of literary life in general. Professor Shi has published more than forty scholarly articles in a wide variety of academic journals at home and abroad including: Miscellaneous Publications ofStudies in Modern Chinese Literature, Contending Voices in Literature and Art, Reviews of Works of Fiction, Lu Xun Studies Monthly, Studies of the Republican Period, Biographical Studies of Modern China, House of Books,Guangdong Style, and Cultural China (a Canadian periodical). Professor Shi has also authored and published two monographs: A Biography of Chen Hengzhe: One Who Sings of a Life of “Creating One’s Destiny” (Far East Publishing House, Shanghai,2010), and From the Public Space of the New Culture to Partisan and Sectarian “Private Parks and Gardens”: Studies of the Minguo Daily and Juewu [Awakening] (Hua Mulan Culture Publishing House, 2014). In addition, he has published a work of translation titled: In the Alley of Napoli: A Collection of Critiques and Reviews in Modern Chinese Literature (Nanjing University Press, 2011, second translator), and has participated in the writing and editing of a textbook, Classic Decoding: Chinese Literature and Film in the Twentieth Century, (Beijing University Press, 2012). He has supervised or participated in a large number of nationally sponsored research projects, as well as in those sponsored by the provincial and/or by the Ministry of Education.

Contact information: Email address: shijianguo@sdu.edu.cn