Xiaobin Yang is Croft Assistant Professor of Chinese Language and Literature in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi, where he teaches contemporary Chinese literature, film, cultural theory, and comparative cultural studies. His academic publications include Lishi yu xiuci (History and rhetoric: Essays on contemporary Chinese literature) and Fouding de meixue (Negative aesthetics: Literary theory and cultural criticism of the Frankfurt school). An active researcher, Yang was a 2001 recipient of the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Grant awarded by the United States Department of Education.
