Wang Zhenglong, male, born in March 1965 in Nanling, Anhui Province, is a Ph.D. in literary arts. He has served as an associate professor (2001), professor (since 2008), and doctoral supervisor (since 2012) at the School of Liberal Arts of Nanjing University. He is also a standing director of the China Association for Literary Theory and the China Association of Foreign Literary Theory and Criticism, as well as a director of the National Marxist Literary Theory and Criticism Association. His main research interests include literary basic theory, Western aesthetics, and Marxist literary theory. He has published five individual monographs (including one co-authored) and over a hundred professional academic papers, which have been reprinted in more than 50 copies by the Copy of Newspaper and Publication Materials at Renmin University of China, Xinhua Digest, Chinese Social Sciences Digest, and Higher Education Humanities and Social Sciences Digest.