Professor Ye Yangxi was born in October 1986 in Nantongxian, Jiangsu Province; his family’s ancestral home is Taixingxian, Jiangsu Province. He received both his BA degree and MA degree from the School of Literature, Nanjing University (in 2009 and 2012 respectively.) He served as an Exchange Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts of Waseda University in Japan in 2014 and earned his PhD degree from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2015.

In 2015, Professor Ye joined the staff of Shandong University as an Assistant Research Fellowin the Institute of Comparative Literature and World Literatures. At the same time, he pursued postdoctoral research work under the mentoring of Professor Zeng Fanren at the Center for Research in Literary and Artistic Aesthetics. Professor Ye has been a Thesis Advisor to MA students since 2016 and was selected for Shandong University’s Development Plan for Young Scholars of the Future in 2017. Since 2018, he has served as an Associate Professor. His primary teaching and research orientations include: Chinese Texts and Books Outside of China, and the Study of Sinology Overseas. Professor Ye offers the following courses:

· For undergraduate students in the School of Literature, “Foreign Literatures”, and “An Introduction to East Asian Comparative Literature” and

· For graduate students, “The Study of Sinology Overseas”.

Professor Ye has published one monograph. He has also authored and published manyscholarly papers, book reviews, and works of translation in a variety of academic journals at home and abroad, including: The Social Sciences, Contending Voices in Literature and Art, Academic Journal of East Xinjiang, Research Papers on Chinese Texts and Books Outside of China, Studies in Classical Literature, Academic Journal of Nanjing Normal University, Chinese Humanities (Hong Kong), Academic Journal in History of Chenggong University (Taiwan), and The Bulletin for Sinological Research (Taiwan). He is currently supervising a large number of research projects, including six that are receiving sponsorship at the provincial and national Ministry levels, such as the sponsorship of the National Foundation for the Social Sciences. Professor Ye has won many scholastic prizes and awards, including the Cheng Qianfan Scholarship of Nanjing University (2012), the Folk Culture Youth Forum Award of the Chinese Association for Folklore Studies (2013), the Graduate Student Academic Achievement Award at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014), and a Level-1 Prize in the Inaugural National Competition for Most Outstanding Papers in Literary Education (2018).

Contact information: E-mail: yeyangxi777@163.com

Mailing address: The School of Literature, Shandong University, 27 Shanda South Road, Jinan, Shandong, China (250100)