He is a professor at the School of Liberal Arts of Nanjing University, currently serving as the vice dean of the school and the director of the Department of Drama, Film and Television Arts. He graduated from Xiaoshan Middle School in Zhejiang Province. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Chinese Language and Literature from Nanjing University, as well as a master’s and a doctoral degree in Drama and Chinese Opera Studies. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in 2011 and participated in the Artist in Residence program in Austria in 2013. In 2019, he was selected as a member of “Social Science Outstanding Youth” in Jiangsu Province, and in 2021, he was awarded the title of “Young Academic Leader” in the “Qinglan Project” of Jiangsu Province. His main research areas include avant-garde theater and drama criticism. He has published over 40 articles in journals such as Literature & Art Studies, Journal of Department Chinese Literature at Taiwan University, and Theatre Art. He has published a monograph titled The Barbarians in Civilization: Chinese Narratives of American Modern Drama and a translated work titled American Avant-Garde Theatre: A History. He has also created stage plays such as Day and Night Here, Pollution and Purification, and Hometown.