Yuan Wenzhuo (1989-), male, born in Jingzhou, Hubei province. He received his doctoral degree in literature from the School of Liberal Arts at Nanjing University in June 2019 and has been teaching at the university since then. He currently serves as an assistant researcher at the School of Liberal Arts of Nanjing University, a full-time researcher at the Center for Chinese New Literature Studies at Nanjing University, and a member of the Jiangsu Provincial Association for the Study of Contemporary Chinese Literature. His research mainly focuses on contemporary Chinese novels, cross-media criticism, and contemporary cultural trends.