LI Zhangbin is Professor of the College of Liberal Arts, Nanjing University.

Li Zhangbin, born in 1983, is from Shaoguan, Guangdong. He received his Bachelor’s degree in History and Master’s degree in Literature from Nanjing University, and his Ph.D. in 2012. From 2010 to 2011, he was a joint Ph.D. student studying at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis. He also served as a visiting professor at Grinnell College from 2015 to 2016.

He is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University’s School of Liberal Arts, and was selected as a young top talent in the “Ten Thousand Talents Program” and one of the first “Zhongying Young Scholars” at Nanjing University. He also serves as a visiting researcher at the China Modern Literature Museum and the secretary-general of the Jiangsu Provincial Association for Modern Chinese Literature Studies. His research interests are mainly in modern Chinese poetry and he has published works such as Navigating Within Language: On the Rhythm of New Poetry and Other Topics, The Poetic Strategies and Historical Connections of the “Nine-Leaves School” Poets (1937-1949), and Mythmaking Beyond Language: Chinese New Poetry Criticism. He has received awards such as the Tang Tao Youth Literature Research Award, the Third Thought Source Humanities and Social Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Award in Taiwan, the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in Jiangsu Province, the Purple Mountain Literature Award in Jiangsu Province, and the Asia-Pacific Chinese Literature Review Award (Taiwan)