Liu Chao, male, born in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, is a Ph.D. in Philosophy and currently serves as a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Comparative Literature and World Literature at Nanjing University.

 He attended the Humanities Enhanced Teaching Program (now Kuang Yaming Honors School) at Nanjing University from September 1999 to July 2003, and obtained a Bachelor’s degree. From September 2003 to July 2006, he pursued a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature and World Literature at Nanjing University, supervised by Professor Yu Bin. In August 2006, he went to the University of Colorado at Boulder in the United States for further studies. He successively studied in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations (supervised by Professor Timothy Weston) and the Department of Comparative Literature (supervised by Professor Paul Kroll and Professor Edwin Rivers), and earned his Master’s degree in Arts (May 2009) and Ph.D. in Philosophy (May 2014).

He worked as an assistant researcher at the Art Research Institute of Nanjing University from July to December 2014. From January 2015 to October 2021, he worked as an associate professor and master’s supervisor at the School of Foreign Languages at Southeast University. In December 2021, he joined the Comparative Literature and World Literature Department of Nanjing University as a professor and doctoral supervisor.

His main research interests are in the cultural relationships and political history of China and foreign countries in modern and contemporary literature contexts, with a particular focus on cultural representation of national identity. He has published more than 30 articles in journals such as Foreign Literature Review, Literature & Art Studies, Academic Monthly, Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology, and CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. He has also published three monographs in both Chinese and English, including Research on the Thai-Burma Death Railway and The Matrix of Modernity and National Identity in Manchukuo Literature from 1937 to 1941, and translated three books into Chinese, including Contemporary Cultural Theory. He has hosted one project of the National Social Science Fund, one project of the Jiangsu Social Science Fund, and one sub-project of the major project of the National Social Science Fund.